[CentOS] Anyone ever gotten Solaris to install from a CentOS PXE server?

Mon Mar 20 21:35:36 UTC 2017
Lukas Zapletal <lukas at zapletalovi.com>

Foreman does support Solaris out of box, I haven't tried this myself. It
runs in CentOS7.

https://www.theforeman.org

2017-03-20 22:32 GMT+01:00 James A. Peltier <jpeltier at 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 at 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.
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  Lukas Zapletal