Preparing the Base Manifest

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The first component when working with derived manifests is the base manifest.

Before You Begin

Ensure that your role has the appropriate rights profiles to perform this procedure. See Using Rights Profiles to Install Oracle Solaris.

Create the base manifest through one of two ways:
- Create an empty XML file.
  At the top, the blank base manifest must contain the following defined elements:
```
<!DOCTYPE auto_install SYSTEM "file:///usr/share/install/ai.dtd"> <auto_install/>
```
- Create a copy of an existing manifest.
  For example:
```
$ cp /usr/share/auto_install/default.xml /var/tmp/aimsample.xml
```
Set the variables that identify the base manifest and the location of the script's logs.
For example, depending on your shell, you might type the following commands:
```
$ export AIM_MANIFEST=/tmp/aimsample.xml
$ export AIM_LOGFILE=/var/log
```

Next Steps

Next you would create the script that would modify aimsample.xml during installation according to client attributes.