On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:26:23PM -0600, Mike Dotson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:03 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > Specifically, when it comes to managing which *Solaris* software is > > installed, there should be no need for scripting. > > Really? Are you sure? > > So if I as a customer purchase different types of systems, one that's a > database server based on x4600's and m9000's, one thats an application > system based on x4200's and a web tier based on brand X systems, they're > all supposed to magically know what image to install without scripting?
Without scripts that run in the context of the diskless boot, yes. I've done this with JumpStart, and the right place to do this is *before* the AI/jumpstart starts. I.e., you write a profile, tell the install system, and that's what you get. With Jumpstart we had to hack on the bgein script to make that actually happen, but that's not to say that the same would be true of AI. Nico --
