Re: Solaris 9 installation freezes

From: Bruce D Porter (bdp_at_ytc1.co.uk)
Date: 12/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:12:35 +0000

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:06:09 -0800, Ghazan Haider wrote:

>> DHCP will work with JumpStart.
>
> I delved into that, but I have a BSD and Linux background and DHCP is
> different there. I gave up.
>
>> > (3) The sparcstation with openprom 2.15 cannot boot with the tokenring
>> > sbus cards.
>>
>> Upgrade the OBP ?
>
> To be honest I havent netbooted using TR anywhere. I'm not sure its
> possible on a PC even. The futures all ethernet anyway.
>
>> Where you doing GUI install or VT100 ?
>
> This was through a serial port, dtterm. I dont know how to drop into a
> shell.

Answer the questions about hostname, IP, etc and then you get an option
(F5 IIRC) to escape.

>
>> > (5) Nothing below sparcstation 4 is supported. I also tried installing
>> > on one workstation with 16MB ram, and not even the first installation
>> > step would start.
>>
>> That will be the OS version,probably, I JumpStarted a Sparc1+ with Sol 7
>> recently
>
> I wish I could find Sol7. I have one SS2 sitting around. I tried

Tried ebay ?

> add_install_client ss2 sun4c and it copies a much smaller inetboot
> file that just prints that Solaris 9 doesnt support that arch.

Yup or Sol8 for that matter.

>
>> > (6) Installation is really slow. 900MB files of just the standard
>> > Solaris 9 on a sparcstation with 2.1GB SCSI disk took me 9 hours.
>> > Neither the server nor the ethernet is the bottleneck.
>>
>> Are you sure ? I JumpStarted a classic with SunScreen on a 10mbs network
>> recently using le cards (2.5mbs) and that took 6 hours.
>
> Pretty sure. I doubt now its a network bottleneck. 2.1GB disks arent
> the fastest, and I guess the 85MHz CPUs arent impressive either,
> although Ive installed Solaris x86 on a Pentim1 100MHz and that was
> much faster on a 9GB IDE.

Via CD I presume ?
I have lost track of what system you are JumpStarting from

>
>> > Keeping these quirks in mind, it works with multiple clients
>> > installing simultaneously. I'm glad I accomplished this task in
>> > solaris. Took me about 6 weeks in all.
>>
>> It should take you a day next time :=}
>
> Probably will take me a few days. I wont forget all this after all the
> struggling anytime soon.

Have a gander on BigAdmin at JET
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/jet/

It makes the process of seting up easier and quicker. 

-- 
	Bruce
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