Hi,How does one go about getting AI and Solaris 10 network installation to coexist on the same multihomed server?
Yes, this is a loaded question. We have been using the AI server as our DHCP server for the lab. Which works fine as long as the S10 and S11 installers agree to make certain the DHCP macros are configured correctly for themselves. With changes to AI to make multihomed servers work better, this doesn't appear to be the case. Lemme 'xplain...
For Solaris 10 installation using DHCP certain installation tools create client macros named after the client ID. This is what's in the customer docs to do. Sorta the way AI used to do it. This was cool, because then when I set up the same target machine for AI it would change the macro to suite its needs.
Now AI doesn't change that macro, and it doesn't warn the user that there is such a macro, so when I did a boot net:dhcp - install my system obediently installed Solaris 10, again. My witty response what "Huh? What the <censored>?"
So now it looks like I'm going to have to wrapper installadm to clean up the DHCP macro... just like I've had to do with Solaris 10 jumpstart. And here I thought things were going to get easier for customers.
<usual CYA>
Or did I miss something fundamental... again?
</usual CYA>
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