Re: Custom Jumpstart with Flash Archive in Solaris 8 04/01
From: Vlad (vgrama_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/27/03
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Date: 27 Aug 2003 09:19:21 -0700
Thank you very much for your quick and complete reply.
I recreated the flar archive of the Solaris 8 04/01 using the
flarcreate script taken from a Solaris 9 09/02. I used
"setup-install-server" from a Solaris 9 09/02 CD, and I used it to
"serve" the Solaris 8 04/01 flash archive to the clients; It all
worked just fine.
I know that you would not have any reason to use
"setup-install-server" from a Solaris version different from the
Solaris version within the flash archive served to the clients, but
this was the quickest option for me (I had no CDs for a Solaris 8
02/02). Then only problem I had was with the locale definition which I
modified in /etc/default/init
Just one more question: is there any option within the Solaris 8 (or 9
09/02) version of flarcreate that can be used to include in the
archive a whole directory tree ? (useful for layered Flash archives) I
saw that with -f <flist> only the nodes explicitely specified in
<flist> are included in the archive (so if I write the name of a
directory the subdirectories and files are not included). It is true
that I could use "find / dir > flist" and than use flist with the -f.
Thank you again,
Vlad Grama.
Rainer Freis <freis@santix.de> wrote in message news:<3F4B29E9.B223715A@santix.de>...
> Vlad schrieb:
> >
>
> [lots of problems using flash archive with jumpstart]>
>
> > 1. Has anyone had similar problems ?
> Yes.
>
>
> > 2. Has anyone used Jumpstart with Flash successfully ? In what Solaris
> > release ?
> Yes. You must use Solaris 8 Version 02/02 (at least). That's what Sun
> Support
> told me and after they managed to send me the 02/02 copies everything works
> fine.
>
> The version of the jumpstart server doesn't matter (we use Solaris 2.6).
>
>
> > 3. I already created the flar archive on Solaris 04/01. I would like
> > to be able to install it. Could I use a more recent Solaris version (
> > 9 ) on the install / boot Jumpstart Server and to "server" the Solaris
> > 8 archive to my clients ? (the only problems that could arise in my
> > opinion would be: possible differencies in sysidcfg file from one
> > version to another; otherwise the archive contains everything required
> > for installing the system)
> >
>
> As I said above, it doesn't matter what release your jumpstart server is.
> The only thing that counts is the release in /jumpstart/Solaris_<Version>
> where you have to use at least Solaris 8 Version 02/02.
>
>
> regards
> Rainer
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