Shawn Walker wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> 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.

Do you know where I can information on that? If it is possible, what 
might be the kernel paramters?

>>> 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.
> 
> This may prove helpful as well:
> http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/05/24/pxe-net-booting-open-solaris-200805-release/
>  

That was very helpful! I am now able to boot the OpenSolaris Kernel with 
pxegrub.

-- 
Christian Kaiser, Software Engineer, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
http//www.dolphinics.com
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