I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.
Has anyone managed to do this before? I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up.
On 3/17/2017 11:09 AM, Locane wrote:
I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.
Has anyone managed to do this before? I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up.
A) Solaris is not even remotely CentOS
B) Last time I did network installs of Solaris (which was Solaris 9 and 10), it used a completely different setup, involving a RARP server (reverse ARP) rather then DHCP/bootp, and a bootparamd(?) server to specify the configuration, instead of DHCP PXE options. It then used tftp and NFS to fetch the boot image and OS installation stuff, per the recipe in bootparamd. Look up documentation on Solaris Jumpstart for the specifics. Setup correctly, its completely hands off, and was designed to support diskless workstations.
Yes and PXE booting the node worked just fine. It was quite some time ago and the process was rather straightforward. This is for x86_64
use-host-decl-names on; filename "/solaris/pxegrub"; next-server <TFTP SERVER IP>; vendor-option-space SUNW; option SUNW.JumpStart-server "<INSTALLATION SERVER IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86";
# BE WARNED: No hostnames. Must use IP addresses for Sol 10 x86! host canopy { option host-name "canopy"; hardware ethernet <MAC ADDRESS>; fixed-address <IP ADDRESS>; option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server = "<INSTALLTION SERVER IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86"; }
----- On 17 Mar, 2017, at 11:09, Locane locane@gmail.com wrote:
| I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make | it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm | hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups. | | Has anyone managed to do this before? I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up. | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Foreman does support Solaris out of box, I haven't tried this myself. It runs in CentOS7.
2017-03-20 22:32 GMT+01:00 James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca:
Yes and PXE booting the node worked just fine. It was quite some time ago and the process was rather straightforward. This is for x86_64
use-host-decl-names on; filename "/solaris/pxegrub"; next-server <TFTP SERVER IP>; vendor-option-space SUNW; option SUNW.JumpStart-server "<INSTALLATION SERVER IP>:/exports/Solaris/ JUMPSTART/x86";
# BE WARNED: No hostnames. Must use IP addresses for Sol 10 x86! host canopy { option host-name "canopy"; hardware ethernet <MAC ADDRESS>; fixed-address <IP ADDRESS>; option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server = "<INSTALLTION SERVER IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86"; }
----- On 17 Mar, 2017, at 11:09, Locane locane@gmail.com wrote:
| I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make | it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm | hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups. | | Has anyone managed to do this before? I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up. | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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