Installing Solaris 10 over the network (Jumpstart installation)...
Hi community,
we need to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2000 (Sparc) over the network (Jumpstart) b/c this machine has no CD-ROM drive.
Is it possible to set up the boot server (required by the jump start mechanism) on a x86 Solaris 10 running in VMware on a laptop ?
Has anyone experiences with this specific setup ? Has anyone done this before ?
Any comments on this topic are _very_ welcome.
Cheers,
Michael
[459 byte] By [
mgartler] at [2007-11-26 10:46:23]
# 1
> Hi community,
>
> we need to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2000
> (Sparc) over the network (Jumpstart) b/c this machine
> has no CD-ROM drive.
>
> Is it possible to set up the boot server (required by
> the jump start mechanism) on a x86 Solaris 10 running
> in VMware on a laptop ?
Probably, but the easiest way to do that is with the DVD image. It's going to be very difficult to do it with the CD images.
Get the DVD image, mount it on the x86 server, run setup_install_server /pathname. Put the client machine in /etc/hosts, then in /pathname/Solarisxxx/Tools run add_install_client -e <MAC address> <name> sun4u
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Darren
# 4
Nope.
A Sunblade 2000 is a Sunblade 1000 with some minor changes to the outer chassis (cosmetic differences).
It is a sun4u box.
A Sun Fire T2000 would be a sun4v system.
That is probably what Darren was trying to recall.
See the SSH for each system.
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1000/SunBlade1000.htm l]SB2000[/url]
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1000/SunBlade1000.htm l]SB1000[/url]
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireT2000/SunFireT2000.htm l]SF T2000[/url]
Perhaps the original poster accidentally downloaded the DVD for x86,
instead of the ISO for SPARC.
