> I'm new to the whole opensolaris scene, and I > couldn't find any docs on building a custom solaris > livecd on sparc.
www.sun.com/blueprints/ and look for "building a bootable CD/DVD", or some such. The authors are John S. Howard and Alex Noordengraf. > Basically I want to make a livecd that has Netbackup > on it to use as a total system recovery tool if one > of my solaris sparc servers go down. You might be wandering off in the wrong direction then. The easiest thing to do is to create a Flash(TM) archive of a master system, then stick that on an NFS server. Then you can boot off of a normal Solaris CD and when the time comes, tell the installer to flash the system with the .flar archive, which it will pull from the aforementioned NFS server. No custom CDs/DVDs and no backup software necessary. >From that point on, it should be trivial to install the NetBackup packages and >do a restore of the data alone. However, the right thing to do(TM) is to design a JumpStart(TM) infrastructure that enables you to boot off of the network and have the system automatically install and configure itself, including automatic mirroring of the system disk - without any intervention on your part, by pulling the .flar archive and installing it. Then in the JumpStart postinstall phase, you'd have the NetBackup packages installed automatically by JumpStart as well. This takes mere minutes, and on modern systems, it takes less than a minute. (On my Opteron system, it takes about 45 seconds). On sparc you can get away with just using RARP, but if you want to do it cleanly, you really should set up a DHCP server to provide the necessary configuration to the install client. docs.sun.com/ and look at the JumpStart(TM) configuration. JumpStart(TM) kicks ass. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
