Jonas Andersson wrote: > I agree with both of you and luckily I am talking about intel-based sun fire > x4150 (running intel xeon processors), but less lucky I don't even know where > to start with this.. Guessing I need a repository of the solaris 10 files and > then a kickstart-file needs to be created, however before I started digging > in it I just wanted to know if you knew of any reason it would not work? > > Regards > > Jonas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cobbler mailing list > Subject: Re: Can i kickstart a jumpstart? > > Brandon Perkins wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> 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 :) > > 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? > > --Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
It can work, but likely "cobbler distro add" needs some smarts first to understand what differences (if any) in kernel options there might be. See the "--breed" handling for SuSE and Debian. This would be similar. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
