CentOS - Mar 2017 - Anyone ever gotten Solaris to install from a CentOS PXE server?

I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make
it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm
hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.

Has anyone managed to do this before?  I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up.

On 3/17/2017 11:09 AM, Locane wrote:
> I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to
make
> it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm
> hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.
>
> Has anyone managed to do this before?  I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3
up.
A) Solaris is not even remotely CentOS

B) Last time I did network installs of Solaris (which was Solaris 9 and 
10), it used a completely different setup, involving a RARP server 
(reverse ARP) rather then DHCP/bootp, and a bootparamd(?) server to 
specify the configuration, instead of DHCP PXE options.   It then used 
tftp and NFS to fetch the boot image and OS installation stuff, per the 
recipe in bootparamd.   Look up documentation on Solaris Jumpstart for 
the specifics.   Setup correctly, its completely hands off, and was 
designed to support diskless workstations.


-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Yes and PXE booting the node worked just fine.  It was quite some time ago and
the process was rather straightforward.  This is for x86_64

use-host-decl-names on;
filename "/solaris/pxegrub";
next-server <TFTP SERVER IP>;
vendor-option-space SUNW;
option SUNW.JumpStart-server "<INSTALLATION SERVER
IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86";

# BE WARNED: No hostnames. Must use IP addresses for Sol 10 x86!
host canopy {
  option host-name "canopy";
  hardware ethernet <MAC ADDRESS>;
  fixed-address <IP ADDRESS>;
  option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server = "<INSTALLTION SERVER
IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86";
}

----- On 17 Mar, 2017, at 11:09, Locane locane at gmail.com wrote:

| I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to make
| it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris, I'm
| hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.
| 
| Has anyone managed to do this before?  I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up.
| _______________________________________________
| CentOS mailing list
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Foreman does support Solaris out of box, I haven't tried this myself. It
runs in CentOS7.

https://www.theforeman.org

2017-03-20 22:32 GMT+01:00 James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>:
> Yes and PXE booting the node worked just fine.  It was quite some time ago
> and the process was rather straightforward.  This is for x86_64
>
> use-host-decl-names on;
> filename "/solaris/pxegrub";
> next-server <TFTP SERVER IP>;
> vendor-option-space SUNW;
> option SUNW.JumpStart-server "<INSTALLATION SERVER
IP>:/exports/Solaris/
> JUMPSTART/x86";
>
> # BE WARNED: No hostnames. Must use IP addresses for Sol 10 x86!
> host canopy {
>   option host-name "canopy";
>   hardware ethernet <MAC ADDRESS>;
>   fixed-address <IP ADDRESS>;
>   option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server = "<INSTALLTION SERVER
> IP>:/exports/Solaris/JUMPSTART/x86";
> }
>
> ----- On 17 Mar, 2017, at 11:09, Locane locane at gmail.com wrote:
>
> | I'm poking through Solaris documentation trying to figure out how to
make
> | it installable via our PXE server and, as with many things Solaris,
I'm
> | hitting walls of completely foreign procedures and setups.
> |
> | Has anyone managed to do this before?  I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3
up.
> | _______________________________________________
> | CentOS mailing list
> | CentOS at centos.org
> | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
> --
> James A. Peltier
> IT Services - Research Computing Group
> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
> Phone   : 604-365-6432
> Fax     : 778-782-3045
> E-Mail  : jpeltier at sfu.ca
> Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices
> Twitter : @sfu_rcg
> Powering Engagement Through Technology
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>


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