Re: Solaris bare metal restore with IBM TSM client?

Frank Fegert wrote:

Frank,

Still, if you're having an older offsite machine, without
CDROM drive and an OBP that doesn't support wanboot, you're
basically screwed. So, i wonder if it would be much effort -
or possible at all, for that matter - to tweak an installation
CD image on the disks to be bootable and loaded into a RAM-
disk?

Did some tests today; the following works:

- copy the ../Solaris*/Boot Directory from the Installations CD/DVDs to a slice on the disk

- make the disk bootable using installboot

- create an obp alias for the disk if you like

- then do a

boot disk1 -o prompt -F wanboot - install


regards

Bernd


example output:

{1} ok boot disk1 -o prompt -F wanboot - install

SC Alert: Host System has Reset
Probing system devices
Probing memory
Probing I/O buses

Sun Fire V240, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.17.1, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #54735055.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:43:30:cf, Host ID: 834330cf.



Rebooting with command: boot disk1 -o prompt -F wanboot - install
Boot device: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@1,0 File and args: -o prompt -F wanboot - install
1000 Mbps FDX Link up

<time unavailable> wanboot info: WAN boot messages->console
<time unavailable> wanboot info: Default net-config-strategy: manual

boot> host-ip=10.3.239.12

boot> router-ip=10.3.239.62

boot> subnet-mask=255.255.255.192

boot> hostname=ose011s1.ndc.test

boot> client-id=0A03EF0C

boot> bootserver=http://10.3.234.48/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi

boot>

boot> list

host-ip: 10.3.239.12
subnet-mask: 255.255.255.192
router-ip: 10.3.239.62
hostname: ose011s1.ndc.test
http-proxy: UNSET
client-id: 0A03EF0C
aes: *HIDDEN*
3des: *HIDDEN*
sha1: *HIDDEN*
bootserver: http://10.3.234.48/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi

boot> go

<time unavailable> wanboot progress: wanbootfs: Read 128 of 128 kB (100%)
<time unavailable> wanboot info: wanbootfs: Download complete
Wed Jul 12 06:59:10 wanboot progress: miniroot: Read 169824 of 169824 kB (100%)
Wed Jul 12 06:59:11 wanboot info: miniroot: Download complete
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-11 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hardware watchdog enabled
Configuring /dev and /devices
Network interface was configured manually.
10.3.239.12
Searching for configuration file(s)...
Using sysid configuration file http://10.3.234.48/profiles/ose011s1.ndc.test/sysidcfg
Search complete.
The system is coming up. Please wait.
Begin system identification...
Starting remote procedure call (RPC) services: sysidns done.
System identification complete.
Starting Solaris installation program...
Searching for JumpStart directory...
Using rules.ok from http://10.3.234.48/profiles/ose011s1.ndc.test.
Checking rules.ok file...
Using begin script: begin_script.sh
Using profile: profile
Using finish script: finish_script.sh
Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
Executing begin script "begin_script.sh"...
Copying the missing files from the profile ...
Begin script begin_script.sh execution completed.
Searching for SolStart directory...
Checking rules.ok file...
Using begin script: install_begin
Using finish script: patch_finish
Executing SolStart preinstall phase...
Executing begin script "install_begin"...
Begin script install_begin execution completed.
....


Regards,

Frank


--
Bernd Schemmer http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html
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