Jonas Andersson wrote: > That would be awesome, will keep digging, reading and contribute if I can.. > > Jonas >
I'm definitely interested in this. Let's make it happen. --Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Lippold > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:16 PM > To: cobbler mailing list > Subject: Re: Can i kickstart a jumpstart? > > Hi, > > I have had a lot of experience with Jumpstart and I have a good > contact on it, the author of the JASS system, that I am sure I could > talk into helping us out. This would actually be great, Linux, Windows > and Solaris support in one system that we can integrate... ah the ever > elusive dream... > > Let me know who in the community is interested and I will help > generate the connections and support from the Sun JASS community. > > Aaron > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
