From: Homan, Charles (NE) (Charles.Homan@GDC4S.Com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 11:52:59 EDT
Greetings,
I have two Flash Archive issues. The first is an installation problem. The
second is a production question.
I am attempting to get a working configuration wherein I can boot from a CD,
then install the system with a flash archive on a (different) CD. I seem to
have hit a roadblack. I am using the Solaris 8 HW 2/02 media kit, as well
as a Solaris 9 media kit. My Flash Archive is Solaris 8 HW 2/02 - although
I'm not getting that far, so I doubt it matters. ;-)
There are two cases where the installation from CD doesn't work, and in both
cases I am (*gasp*) following the instructions in the manual (Advanced
Installation Guide, pp. 136-8.) More's the fool me for reading the
directions, I guess...
Case 1) Boot from the Webstart Installation CD, go through system ID, etc.
It re-boots from mini-kernel. At the "Specify Media" panel I choose
"CD-ROM". The system ejects the Installation CD, and I put in my flash
archive CD. The system looks at it, and rejects it because it doesn't
contain Solaris.
I have tried the Solaris 9 Webstart Installation CD, and it exhibits the
same behavior. I even tried to fake it out by telling it I had an FTP
archive so it would let me choose other Flash Archives. It gave me a second
media selection panel for my "other Flash Archives", which behaved exactly
the same as the "Specify Media" panel did.
Case 2) Boot from the software 1 of 2 CD with 'boot cdrom - w'. Go through
system ID, etc. to the point where I can choose the media for my Flash
Archive. I choose "local device", and follow the example on the screen to
give it the path to my CD-ROM drive (/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0) and the path on the
CD to my archive. It does not give me the chance to swap the CD, but just
looks on the Software 1 of 2 CD for my archive, and - of course - can't find
it.
The Flash Archive CD in question worked fine when booted from the network.
(Solaris 8 2/02 image, installed from the very CDs I am trying to boot the
machine from.) So I know the archive is readable, etc., I just can't get
the installation program to look at it.
Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a
fix, or at least a workaround?
The second issue is, "How can I make a Flash Archive span multiple CD-ROMs?"
In the fully installed configuration (including tools, not data) we will be
approaching 4 GB to archive, which even compressed will take up several CDs.
How do I go about this? Do I need to split the archive, or can I somehow
write on consecutive CDs? (I don't see a way to do the latter with "cdrw".)
Sadly, the "target" machines won't have DVD drives on them, or I would just
go that route.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, and I will summarize.
Regards,
/charles
ObDisclaimer: Any opinions contained herein are mine and are not the
property - or responsibility - of General Dynamics C4 Systems.
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