Install the AI Installation Tools

The AI installation tools package provides the installadm(1M) command that enables you to create and maintain AI install services.

The installadm command enables you to accomplish the following tasks:

Create and enable install services.
Set up and update a DHCP server.
Add custom client installation and configuration instructions.
Set criteria for clients to use custom installation and configuration instructions.

See Maintain an Install Server and Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Man Pages for more information about the installadm command.

To install the tools package, your AI install server must be able to access an Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) software package repository. Make sure you are connected to the Internet or to a local IPS package server that contains the install/installadm package.

Use the pkg list command to determine whether the installadm package is already installed on this system.

$ pkg list installadm
pkg list: no packages matching 'installadm' installed

Use the -a option to make sure your IPS package repository contains the installadm package.

$ pkg list -a installadm
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                       VERSION                   IFO
install/installadm                                     0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.1345 ---

If more than one publisher is defined for this image, use the -v option to show which publisher provides the installadm package.

$ pkg list -av installadm
FMRI                                                                             IFO
pkg://solaris/install/installadm@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.1345:20110815T024057Z ---

Use the pkg publisher command to show the origin for the publisher. In this example, a local copy of the solaris repository has been made.

# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                 TYPE    STATUS  URI
solaris                   origin  online  file:///export/Solaris11/
example.com  (non-sticky) origin  online  http://pkg.example.com/

Use the pkg install command to install the installadm package.

# pkg install install/installadm
    Packages to install:  1
Create boot environment: No
     Services to change:  2

DOWNLOAD                       PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                       1/1       66/66      0.3/0.3

PHASE                             ACTIONS
Install Phase                     119/119

PHASE                               ITEMS
Package State Update Phase            1/1
Image State Update Phase              2/2

PHASE                               ITEMS
Reading Existing Index                8/8
Indexing Packages                     1/1
Deleting content cache

$ pkg info installadm
          Name: install/installadm
       Summary: installadm utility
   Description: Automatic Installation Server Setup Tools
      Category: System/Administration and Configuration
         State: Installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.0.0.0.0.1345
Packaging Date: Mon Aug 15 02:40:57 2011
          Size: 967.86 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/install/installadm@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.1345:20110815T024057Z

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