On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 22:23:20 -0700, Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Not likely, especially if you've never even tried it before on Solaris.
yeah. setting up a jumpstart server requires some understanding of what's
going on during a network boot of sunos/solaris.
> It's possible to kludge if you set all the right things correctly (ARP,
> reverse ARP, NFS, bootparams, etc.), but it's not something you'll
> probably be able to pull off without really thorough experience of how
> a Solaris install server works.
well, it's not that difficult. after the "boot net - install", the following
happens:
* RARP request to get IP address
* TFTP request to RARP server (and a broadcast, if that fail. though
i never managed to get the broadcast to work)
* bootparams query for NFS path of mini-root
* NFS mount of mini-root
* bootup
* sysid runs, with bootparams you can specify a sysidcfg file to
make it non-interactive, otherwise an interactive sysid
* bootparams query to find out where the jumpstart config and
the CD contents are (both NFS paths)
* NFS mount config and CD
* suninstall is installing. interactive or non-interactive, depending
on config.
so, you need to configure
* a RARP server
* a TFTP server
* a bootparams server
* a NFS server
* a jumpstart server (run setup_install_server from the CD for that)
RARP is linux specific.
TFTP and bootparams can be done with add_install_client. if it does not run,
look into the code to see what should be done.
NFS is documented (ro share, whith anon=0 on solaris. dunno the linux equiv.).
> None of the scripts that make an install
> server easy to set up and maintain will work on Linux (setup_install_server,
> add_install_client, etc., are all Solaris-specific enough that they'll
> definitely bomb under another OS).
i was actually able to get setup_install_server and the one on the 2nd CD
(addto_install_server or something like that) to run on debian with minor
modification. i never tried the add_install_client, as i do that by hand.
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