Ben, For truly OS agnostic installs you are probably looking at disk cloning software. Here is a list of some popular ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software
BTW - Ubuntu does support network install. Cheers, Brian On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Ben Rockwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the responses... but JET is Jumpstart. I'm > looking to expand into a platform independent imaging system that isn't > just a net boot wrapper around the installer. > > The problem is that we're currently having to deal with in the data > center is that most shops depend on both Jumpstart and Kickstart, or > equivalent wrappers (JET, etc). Now we're seeing deployment of > hypervisors or increasing deployment of variants such as Ubuntu or > OpenSolaris that don't have good net install options. > > We need a new agnostic network installation system. > > > benr. > > Michael Ramchand wrote: >> I don't know what I'd do without JET. :-) >> >> The "official" documentation/product pages are here: >> >> http://wikis.sun.com/display/JET >> >> Mike >> >> Christine Tran wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Octave Orgeron >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I use JET. >>>> >>> >>> Likewise. Jumpstart + Solaris DHCP is awful but JET makes all that go >>> away. It supports building zones as well. We use it to turn around >>> large number of servers and I cannot imagine doing it without JET. >>> I'm surprised JET is still pretty much supported by a couple of guys >>> at SunPS UK and appears to be relegated to "interesting project" >>> stature. But shh ... maybe that's why it's still good, productize it >>> and it'll be dead in 8 months. >>> >>> CT >>> >>> >>>> Works with x86/sparc and does bootp, wanboot, and pxeboot for >>>> Solaris. You can do flash archive and traditional network installs. >>>> Also supports Linux. It's a good framework, modular, and enables you >>>> to do templates. I've used it over the past 6-7 years and had a lot >>>> of success with it. >>>> >>>> http://jet.maui.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sysadmin-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta New York City user groups calendar: http://nyc.brandorr.com/ _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
