Hi, Jan and Mary, Thanks for your reply and suggestion. It's a little troubled to enter the lab to use the CD drive, so I preferred network installation. And also I have gone so further and I didn't want to give up halfway. OpenSolaris is an on-going operating system and I can't know what I will be facing when I use the CD media, maybe another defect.:-)
It's also funny to know how AI works during this time.:-) Yesterday I tried to mount boot_archive via lofi device, and hacked the script live-fs-root, the installation is broken when creating /etc/netboot directory (error with Read-only file system, which is ramdisk), it seems that I'm running into another issue which is related with boot_archive format, more investigation is needed for me. I will continue and never give up:-) Thanks & Regards, Gavin Mu 2010/3/2 Jan Damborsky <Jan.Damborsky at sun.com>: > Hi Gavin Mu, > > > On 03/ 1/10 03:07 PM, Gavin Mu wrote: >> >> Hi, Jan, >> >> Thanks for your reply. I modified the file /etc/netboot/wanboot.conf >> and it works. >> The downloading is so slow and it seems that it can't be completed in >> several hours. Since you have pointed that I will fail with bug 9549, >> I tried to modify boot_archive to have my network up, but the method >> provided in comment 11 of bug 9549 by you can not work on my machine: >> # mount -o nologging ./boot_archive /mnt/misc/ >> nfs mount: nfs file system; use [host:]path > > You need to copy boot_archive to your local Sparc system, > modify it there and then copy it back. > > Before you spend more time on this, did you consider to > install your Sparc system by means of media (CD) ? > As Mary pointed out in separate email, besides bootable > AI, there is also media text installer which you could use > to install your Sparc machine (assuming it is equipped > with CD drive). > > I am mentioning this, since things has been evolving and > diffs posted in bug 9549 might not need to work without > appropriate modifications. > > Jan > >
