Hi Dave, * Dave Young (no-reply at opensolaris.org) wrote: > I'm a bit stuck, i'd be very grateful if anybody has a suggestion for > me to get out of my fix. > > First of all ... I would like to express my appreciation that > OpenSolaris is available at all, and I don't wish to appear > ungrateful. I'd just really like to run it across my SPARC network :-) > > I also didn't realize that an install server has to be setup. In my > case, i have an all SPARC network, of older machines (ultra 2, ultra > 80, sunblade 2000 and sunblade 2500). So i've got a bit of a "chicken > and egg" situation, because i need to install solaris 09.06 on one of > my SPARC machines, in order to set it up as an install server!!
Keep in mind, those older machines need to support WANboot in the OBP[2] or they can't be installed using AI. > Does anybody have any practical advice or suggestion (short of > purchasing an x86 machine to use as an install server) for my > situation please? I'd be very grateful if SPARC bootable install media > was available for OpenSolaris 09.06 At the current time, there isn't any SPARC bootable install media for OpenSolaris. It's one of the things that we're planning to provide, but there's no ETA for that work to be done. That said, workarounds that come to mind are: a) install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on an existing x86 laptop and use that as an initial AI install server. b) install OpenSolaris 2009.06 inside VirtualBox on an existing x86 laptop (if you don't want to plow the laptop's installation) and use that as an initial AI install server[1]. Cheers, -- Glenn 1 - http://blogs.sun.com/chrisarmes/entry/configuring_an_auto_install_client 2 - http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/faq.html#wanboot
