[OmniOS-discuss] Kayak for ISO now at Beta

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> Say hello:
>
>         http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso
>
> It now includes over this morning's major bump of "menu option #1":
>

That bit seems to work fine.


>         - Keyboard layout query at start time, like the old installer.
>

This doesn't appear to be carried through to the installed system.

The way illumos does this is a bit of a twisty maze that I ended
up digging into a while back:

http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/how-illumos-sets-keyboard-type.html


>         - A fix so the boot archive at installation HAS its SHA-1 checksum
> in place
>
> The sums are:
>
> md5 (r151021-kayak.iso) = 3170424fecdf582f7014e1a253acc7d3
> sha1 (r151021-kayak.iso) = 29e8a2fc207b39617809867818197752de47dbe8
> sha256 (r151021-kayak.iso) = 9236d2ee76368ed30d3102402b968a
> c9b8ca59a7e17195a16f6ae417eba303e2
>
>
> Please try it, both on existing, known-to-work platforms, and continuing
> on to the newer ones like Xen or qemu, that had not worked in the past.
>
> Thank you!
> Dan
>
> p.s. If people are happy with this, I may officially cut over bloody media
> to use this revision of kayak-for-ISO once I can figure out the .usb-dd
> problem.
>
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