Hi Gary. I've been using the tftpserver that comes along with CentOS, and I've not had the need for any third party tftpserver. The tftpserver that comes with centOS is great, and does not barf on any miniroot that I use.
Infact, I modify the x86.miniroot file and put some more utilities in it, so the size of my miniroot is much bigger than standard and the tftpserver does not complain. Give it a shot, and let us know how it goes. If the standard tftpserver also gives you problems of the same type, just run the server by hand with option "-B max-block-size", and that should help you get a bit further. I don't know the equivalent of this for atftp. -anoop On 9/19/07, Gary Leong <gwleong at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the responses. I'm trying to install the latest Solaris Community > Express. > > I'm running Centos 5 installed with atftp. I followed this guide: > > http://wizard.ae.krakow.pl/~mike/solaris/ > > There were a couple of things I found out: > > 1) Though I specify in /etc/dhcp.conf > > filename "solaris/pxegrub" > options grubmenu "solaris/menu.lst" > > it gets the pxegrub from /tftboot/solaris/pxegrub, but looks at > /tftboot/boot/grub/menu.lst for the menu.lst. it's really weird. but i put > it in /tftboot/boot/grub anyhow just to get it working. > > after it grabs the menu.lst, it then tries to download the x86.miniroot, but > can't get the entire thing. in /var/log/messages for the atftp server, it > shows > > atftpd[18572]: Requested file to big, increase BLKSIZE > > therefore, you need to increase the blocksize on teh client, which for me is > the pxe client. > > so i decidced to scrap the idea of using pxe, and put in a cd to get the > machine at least connected to the nfs server. now i'm running into other > problems. the perc controller and the nic on the dell 2950 is not supported > by the solaris 10. > > gosh..i really wanted to test and bring solaris into our environment b/c of > our databases and zfs. i used zfs on sparc and loved it. at my new job, > unfortunately, solaris is perceived to be outdated b/c of linux... > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
