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@klausz65 klausz65 commented Dec 2, 2025

For discussion about the new installer - replacing the need for the Python text-based installer, Note nothing from the python installer has been removed in this PR, just as a proposal for discussion about future install possibility.

@klausz65 klausz65 marked this pull request as draft December 2, 2025 14:13
# Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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"""boot_archive_archive - Release the boot arhive mount and archive the
"""boot_archive_archive - Release the boot archive mount and archive the
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This is not related to korn shell. Please create this as a separate PR.

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done: #100


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# sparc_usb_confiure - Configure a populated boot archive area including usr
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configure

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Thanks, has been left over from early devlopment - changed.

# into /mnt/misc which will cause the installer's attempt to
# create a user account to fail
rm ${PKG_IMG_PATH}/etc/.pwd.lock
[ -f ${PKG_IMG_PATH}/etc/.pwd.lock ] && rm ${PKG_IMG_PATH}/etc/.pwd.lock
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What about to use rm -f ... instead?

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The test is only there, because during development sometimes the file has been created, and sometimes not. If the underlying processes didn't it created it, there was always the error message: no such file or directory. I just wanted to not complain about the missing file if it hasn't been there in the first place.

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... and rm -f should handle that properly and silently.

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done


# now after the lofi filesystems are active, get rid of
# the ones in the actual root filesystem and hope it also
# works on old Ultra1 and or Ultra10 systems.
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and or?

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Corrected - thanks

@klausz65 klausz65 force-pushed the new-installer branch 4 times, most recently from 2c8f8d8 to 52267fc Compare December 4, 2025 06:55
@klausz65 klausz65 force-pushed the new-installer branch 4 times, most recently from d17c2c8 to 8704d50 Compare December 16, 2025 10:28
@klausz65 klausz65 force-pushed the new-installer branch 3 times, most recently from df809e8 to 5028d38 Compare December 26, 2025 15:51
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