Overview

You will need to tweak this installer if you play with a bloddy development or testing purpose or might you have some work or job tobe unconditionaly not a way of standar.

What & What

Creating custom DVD installer boot sparc solaris

1. Create a directory where the data you will put in the DVD
        mkdir /custom_dvd
2. Extract slice 0 from the original DVD solaris installer (Slice 0 is the data container), you can mount the DVD and copy all the content
        mount /cdrom
        cp -a /cdrom/* /custom_dvd
3. Create / modify the following file in /custom_dvd/.install_config/ directory:
        - rules.ok
                vi /custom_dvd/.install_config/rules
                        ...
                        probe disks
                        any - Begin/choose_bootdisk = Finish/osis_finish
                        ...
                ./check
        - profile
                vi /custom_dvd/.install_config/Begin/chole_bootdisk
                        ...
                        ...
                vi /custom_dvd/.install_config/Finish/osis_finish
4. Remove all files in /custom_dvd/Solaris_10/Product/ and put your flash archive there
5. Create new iso
        cd /
        mkisofs -r -omit-period -allow-leading-dots -full-iso9660-filenames -d -sparc-boot ... -G /custom_dvd/boot/hsfs.bootblock -o custom_dvd.iso -volid Solaris /custom_dvd/

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