Shawn Walker wrote: > Christian Kaiser wrote: >> Christian Kaiser wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I want to setup a diskless OpenSolaris client. Chapter 7 of the >>> Solaris System Administration Guide (Basic Administation) explains >>> how a client can be installed with the help of PXE (not what I am >>> interested in) and later how a client can be booted with PXE, pxegrub >>> in my case as it is a x86 machine. >>> >>> I wonder if I can follow the instructions of the guide and if the >>> packages are available in OpenSolaris because the guide is for >>> Solaris users and not OpenSolaris, right? >> >> Can't believe that nobody knows to answer this question... > > The short answer is "No"; you can't use that guide for OpenSolaris > 2008.05. > > You might be able to use it for SXCE builds, but I wouldn't expect that > to hold true in the coming months. >
But I read of some people that have been booting OpenSolaris of a NFS. Is that possible? And what about using pxegrub to boot the OpenSolaris Kernel? Is that possible? -- Christian Kaiser, Software Engineer, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions http//www.dolphinics.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
