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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
