Christian Kaiser wrote: > 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?
With Solaris Express Community Edition, as far as I know, yes. > And what about using pxegrub to boot the OpenSolaris Kernel? Is that > possible? As far as I'm aware, pxe support, etc. is still in its early stages for the OpenSolaris 2008 distribution. You might ask on install-discuss. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
