... Check your boot allocation method is set correctly, I suspect you are trying a Sol10U1 on x86/64 so will need "newboot". Also make sure your...
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Feb 1, 2006 11:24 am
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... In short JET is an install tool, *not* an upgrade tool. In long JET doesn't do upgrades; you could in theory do it, since JumpStart does support upgrades,...
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Feb 1, 2006 12:30 pm
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Thanks for the reply. In my template I have: base_config_client_allocation="newboot" and base_config_ClientOS=10-06-01-x86-r100 list_solaris_locations: ...
... Correct, I think Mike has been looking into that .... or at least I hope so and he didn't ask me to do it and I have forgotten :-( ... Cool ... -- ______ ...
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... It's not JET that doesn't like it, its Jumpstart, and its add_install_client script that doesn't work with remote boot images. It is possible to work...
... No, if I have totally fubared my DHCP setup, I resort to removing and starting again. dhtadm -R pntad -R dhcpconfig -U -x -h ... -- ______ /_____/\...
Hi Everyone, I've been testing out Jet 4.1 and noticed that the packages that should be installed via the custom module are not getting installed. The packages...
Without elaberating too much, does anyone hae a quick clue on why with a Solaris 8 client jumping off a 4.1.0 JET server fail on NFS mounting the JET system...
Do you have any custom scripts that set network speeds? This sounds like a network speed mismatch with the switch port that the client is connected to and the...
... Do you mean the "mini root" boot image or the CD media image as a whole? We have split our media such that the mini root files are stored locally on the...
No. There are not custom scripts for NIC operations. When I snoop from the JET server I see NO packets from the target host at all. This has led me to...
Well.... It would appear as if populating the base_config_networkifs and base_config_networkif_xxx0 section solves the problem. I have always been able to rely...
... The logic for configuring the interface based on the sysidcfg exists in the Solaris Installation, not JET. Could you try not using PRIMARY, but the actual...
... add_install_client requires the mini root image to be local. Yes you can split it, though JET won't do the right thing just yet, so you may need to tweak...
... I have seem the problem with certain hw platforms and certain OS versions not plumbing up the primary interface; normally newer platforms and older OS...
... Prior to 4.1 you couldn't install a package in datastream format, and you'd have had to pkgtrans it. ... In JET 4.1, we "try" to allow you to install...
... ahem, yes you could; the code was in custom from a *very* long time ago... the bits that have been added are to allow datastreams in zip/gz/bz format and...
Actually. I take it all back. Its a bug. JET 4.1 (and 4.0) doesn't/can't handle datastreams with multiple packages in it with a name!=pkgname. I guess you...
When jumpstarting pxegrub clients, the Sun add_install_client script seems to mix'n'match the jumpstart interfaces in creating the /tftpboot/menu.lst.<macaddr>...
Paul, Small oops. Its the client_allocate_newboot.SunOS file you need to edit. Mike -- Mike Ramchand Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems Client Solutions (UK) ...
Works great. Thanks Mike. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Robertson Email: probertson@... Phone: 617-784-1575 GnuPG Public Key: http://unixway.com/misc/pgpkey.txt...
With JetVXVM 3.2.5, we used the blueprint script to ensure that both operating system mirrors were identical, as suggested in the original Sun Blueprint...
... There is a JetVXVM4 module for VxVM 4.x as it was so different to previous versions of VxVM it was easier to produce a new module. The normal root to get...
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On Solaris 8, simply force swap to start at cylinder 0 (al la 9 and 10) be specifying "0:<num cylinders>" as the size for the swap partition. This then allows...
Because somebody (Bruce) put the wrong package on the sun.com/downloads site. We don't normally make the Veritas and SC3 modules available. If you got the old...