Hello All, I'm new to JET and I'm trying to do a basic, no frills install of a Solaris 2.9 client. I am unable to get past the make_client stage because I keep...
... Well, something is wrong with the media dir on the server Solaris: Configure bootparams build ... have you done some fancy linking somewhere ??? How did...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 1, 2008 6:07 pm
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Bruce, *sigh* It do appear that I can't type... From my /etc/vfstab file: dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 /export/install ufs 1 yes logging Cut and paste...
Hello, I want to jumpstart a x86 machine through our company's own network card which is not supported by default Solaris OS. The OS is Solari10 8/07. I got...
... The driver will need adding to the install media image 1st, this means unziping the x86.miniroot, adding the package and rezipping. Something like ... ...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 9, 2008 3:55 pm
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Thanks! I am quite new to JET. I thought I just need to put the network driver installation package to the custom_package and the driver can be used...
Bruce, Is using "unpack" and "pack" commands a simpler way as described in the link below? http://blogs.sun.com/PotstickerGuru/entry/adding_a_pxeboot_driver_to...
... Yep, basically he "miniroot" kernel you boot into memory that will perform the install, *needs* to be able to work the network driver :-) ... -- ______ ...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 10, 2008 2:07 pm
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Hi, Has anybody successfully used JET for upgrading a solaris client instead of doing an initial install? In other words, Can I use a Jet server to do an...
My network driver has two options, one for 32bit and another for 64bit system. They should be put in /kernel/drv and /kernel/drv/amd64 respectively. However,...
... the initial x86 "jumpstart" kernel is only 32-bits, at least in my limited experience with building x64 systems. (You can see whether this is the case, for...
... Correct ... Yep, although you added the driver to the miniroot, it still needs adding to the solaris install, use custom_packages and have it added during...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 11, 2008 3:40 pm
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... This must be in the FAQ by now.... Yes you can use JET to do an upgrade, change the install to upgrade in the profile in the Clients dir. This then renders...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 11, 2008 3:43 pm
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Hi I am trying to configure the Jumpstart server with JET tool kit on x86 platform.I have configured DHCP server on this server. When I am creating the client...
Hi Guys, Thanks everyone for helping me out. I finally make it work! I followed steps on this article: http://www.tapodi.net/~jda/solaris/perc5-solaris.html ...
hello, I want to reboot the client system after each successful PXE boot, so I can continuously test it. I created a script, "reboot_it", which calls the...
Hi all. Scenario. Laptop with Win Vista, VMware and Solaris 10 x86 8/07 installed as a virtual solaris instance installed in VMware Now, I would like to setup...
Hi all. Scenario. Laptop with Win Vista, VMware and Solaris 10 x86 8/07 installed as a virtual solaris instance installed in VMware Now, I would like to setup...
Should be ok - although I haven't tried it with vmware, I have tried it with other virtual environments. * make sure you are using 'bridged' networking - i.e....
Works, I have it running that way on a Macbook Pro. I would recommend going to Opensolaris and getting Inetmenu as well. This will let you change the IP...
I am keen to get this working too Perhaps some kind soul would document this (and perhaps Marty could host the document). Regards Stuart Saxon ... From: Tom...
Very quick question is there any way to get Jet to do a build and on the last reboot instead of bringing the server getting jet to issue an init 0 so that it...
... Possible. Not particularly easy. The file S99jumpstart in /opt/SUNWjet/Utils is the one you need to look at. You HAVE to let JET do all it processing, and...
Marty Lee wrote: JET works fine under VMware. We build most of our servers off a Linux Laptop running VMware Solaris. JET setup is as you would physical tin ...
... A copy of the template would help, we can match what is declared against what we exepect to work. -- ______ /_____/\ Bruce D Porter /____ \\ \...
Bruce D Porter
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Apr 16, 2008 1:14 pm
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Many thanks its very strange situation that we find ourselves in as we have a couple of v480's running sun cluster. The issue is that one of the v480's has...
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