2008/7/22 Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Brandon Perkins wrote:
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> > Jonas Andersson wrote:
> > | Hi,
> > |
> > | Im very fond of cobbler and the swift installs that can be made with
> > it and needless to say we would like to widen our use of the product
> > which leads my to my question.. Is there any way of creating a kickstart
> > for solaris 10, or are we talking about apples and bananas in this case
> > since Sun has their jumpstart?
> > |
> > | Regards
> > |
> > | Jonas
> > |
> > |
> >
> > I had the same question a while back.  Luckily, I have the benefit of
> > sitting ten feet from mdehaan.  I'm definitely interested in seeing if
> > we can do a JumpStart of SPARC.  But first, I just want to see if we can
> > do it with x86_64 Solaris on an Sun Opteron box.  Unfortunately, its a
> > little ways down my priority list, but I know I'm interested in working
> > on this.
> >
> > I'd say start the discussion on what you'd like to see so we can at
> > least come up with some ideas for requirements.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Brandon
> >
>
> I've measured it, and it is 9.87 feet :)


29 hands...


>
> If someone has knowledge about how this works and wants to add it, it
> would be relatively trivial.
>
> Look at "action_sync.py" for starters, and follow that out to
> "pxegen.py".
>
> We'll also probably want to add a "--breed=solaris_x86_64" and a
> "--breed=sparc" to "item_distro.py".
>
> I agree with Brandon that it's probably easier to do x86_64 first though
> I'll take patches for either.
>
> That would get basic PXE fairly quickly, if we want to make koan work
> over there, that might be a bit more work... though maybe we don't need
> that initially.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Yes please.

I watched some colleagues struggle with a Solaris 10 installation last week.
I would have liked to have given them a tool to do it from their desk...




>
> --Michael
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