On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Kyle McDonald wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I have (what I consider) pretty extensive experience with Doing
> JumpStarts on SPARC machines, using RARP/BOOTPARAMS. I've learned
> through trial and error where the gotchas are, and where to look for
> problems when funny things appear.
>
> Now, I'm no longer in a SPARC world, and I'm exploring how to JumpStart
> on X86 systems. I'm knee deep in GRUB, DHCP, and PXE, and like there
> were with RARP/BOOTPARAMS (but even more so it seems) there seem to be
> many ways to get the same job done, and I'm trying to learn the details,
> the differences between them so I can pick the ones that fit my needs
> the best.
... snip ....

You might find this blog[1] to be a good starting point.  It's not a 
hands off jumpstart - but it is as simple as possible and will get you 
started.  Ignore the steps that pertain to ZFS boot (downloading the 
ZFS boot tools and patching the boot image and the ZFS boot specific 
profile entries).  And you probably know your way around this stuff 
better than I do!

Let me know how this works for you and email me offlist if I can help.

[1] 
http://sol10frominnerspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/setup-zfs-boot-for-build-72.html

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
            Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134  Timezone: US CDT
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