Oh, network support (net-fs-root) got taken out at some point then. :-(
Apparently here:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source/commit/d6a47f43379aae363a27ab88378daffcdf1901f6
"Drop support for generating auto-install images"
That's an unfortunate casualty, as network booting was useful
Unfortunately not quite :)
The Shell scripts in slim_source[0] at this time only support mounting
usb or cdrom but downloading the .zlib files into a tmpfs could be
added. PR's Welcome :) Let me know if you need help how to modify the
script. OmniOSCE has it's own handling of installation
Hi Peter,
Many thanks for the reply.
I had tried this kernel option, but using the hostname rather than the IP.
Sadly using the IP gave the same result as before.
I also had read somewhere that iPXE is not capable of uncompressing the
boot_archive file so I uncompressed that file. I did proceed
I *think* adding the following to the kernel line ought to do the trick
-B install_media=http://1.2.3.4/media/directory/
where the url there is the directory containing the solaris.zlib file (and
for some releases, any other zlib files).
You'll probably need to use the IP address.
On Thu, Sep
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched long and hard and
could not find what I really needed.
I have a working iPXE server with various Linux and Windows images served up
over HTTP.
For OI I tried the usual tricks of specifying the kernel and initrd and then
issuing a boot
