From: Willi Burmeister (wib@informatik.uni-kiel.de)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 02:10:01 EST
Hi everybody,
my question:
Do we need a running x86 system to create a JumpStart server on a
SPARC system.
your answer:
yes, it is required.
SPARC processors use "Big-Endian" data encoding, x86 processors
use "Little-Endian" data encoding and UFS is NOT cross-platform.
So we need NFS to compensate these differences.
If we already have a running x86 system, we don't need any CD-ROM,
thanks to lofiadm.
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/mount-cdrom.html
tells us how to split the boot ISO image. But we always need a x86
system to mount the ufs part.
Steps to bootstrap a x86 JumpStart server:
1. get one x86 system up and running by hand
2. insert the boot CD
3. share the two filesystems with your install server
{x86}# share -o ro=<install server>,anon=0 /cdrom/sol_10_x86/s0
{x86}# share -o ro=<install server>,anon=0 /cdrom/sol_10_x86/s2
4. mount these shares on the install server
{sparc}# mkdir -p /a/s0
{sparc}# mkdir -p /a/s2
{sparc}# mount -o ro <x86 system>:/cdrom/sol_10_x86/s0 /a/s0
{sparc}# mount -o ro <x86 system>:/cdrom/sol_10_x86/s2 /a/s2
5. setup JumpStart
{sparc}# cd /a/s2/Solaris_10/Tools
{sparc}# ./setup_install_server <path to jumpstart dir>
6. unmount share
{sparc}# unmount /a/s0
{sparc}# unmount /a/s2
{sparc}# rm -rf /a
7. unshare the filesystems
{x86}# unshare /cdrom/sol_10_x86/s0
{x86}# unshare /cdrom/sol_10_x86/s2
8. eject CD
That's it.
Thanks to all who replied
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And thanks to all those "out of office" guys :-)
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Willi
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