On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer < Peter.Dennis at sun.com> wrote:
> And if you want to play with AutoInstall within a VirtualBox environment > then the following blog has the setup details on how to do it: > > http://blogs.sun.com/chrisarmes/entry/configuring_an_auto_install_client > > ta > pete > > > Vikram Dutta wrote: > >> you can setup sparc ai client on an x86 opensolaris AI server. If you >> don't have AI setup, then install it in a virtual box vm on your windows >> client. I have one setup but don't have any sparc clients to install. >> Sent from mobile device >> >> On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer >> <Peter.Dennis at Sun.COM> wrote: >> >> Alas you are out of luck. The Automated Installer requires the wanboot >> capability. I've had a look at the OBP patches for the E250 and the >> latest (106503-09) brings it up to version 3.30 and that does not >> bring in the wanboot functionality. >> >> Thanks >> pete >> >> Amey wrote: >> I just used above command and output is nothing. Just blank. >> So according to Sun doc my server doesnt support WAN boot. >> What to do now? Any other alternatives? >> Regards, >> Amey. >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > As for wanboot, (or the lack thereofin your case), you can work-around that by using SXCE sparc media as detailed here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/wanboot_from_disk.html and here: http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2009/07/installing-opensolaris-200906-on-sparc.htmland setup the install server on x86 to serve the sparc client. Another (the long way round), alternative is to install SXCE and subsequently migrate to OpenSolaris (I recently migrated a couple of e220r boxen to OpenSolaris .. but it would be even easier with a new install) as blogged here: http://blog.swatteksystems.com/whats-that/archive/2009/10/20/sxce-to-opensolaris-migration-on-sparc Either process is somewhat lengthy but doable. -- Cheers, Steven ----------------------- Steven Acres Toronto OpenSolaris User Group <TOROSUG> Leader http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20091027/e06b691d/attachment-0001.html>
