From: Karoly VEGH (karoly.vegh@eunet.co.at)
Date: Mon Dec 05 2005 - 10:38:42 EST
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Karoly VEGH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:13:57PM +0100, Karoly VEGH wrote:
>
> > I would like to clone solaris installations - e.g. I would like to
> > remove one disk from a complete installation from a raid1 device,
> > put it into another machine, boot from it, sync it up in raid1 again
> > with a third disk.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to solve this problem, though to be able to summarize I
> sould once more need your kind help.
>
> The problem is: I do not want to halt the server, to remove one disk, so
> I created a flash archive with "flarcreate", now I would like to setup a
> tftp and bootserver, to be able to boot the other boxes over the net,
> and during the installation use the flash archive shared on NFS.
Dear sunmanagers members - thanks for all the help. The problem was
again a PEBKAC-type (problem existed between keyboard and chair).
Of course a problem like this is hard to detect remotely, but still I
found it, and your support was a big help in this. Thanks.
The problem was, that I had a bad routing table, routing internal
addresses defaultly through the external interface... kind of
embarrassing :I - as soon as I fixed that, everything worked right
witha jumpstart installation.
Still, I got really good suggestions, ones that I haven't been aware
of, let me share:
The solutionsuggestions were:
Darren Dunham, Dan Stromberg and Hutin Bertrand suggested the same:
> Does in.tftpd run from inetd at that time on the server?
> What happens when you try to retreive it directly on the server?
> # cd /tmp
> # tftp localhost
> tftp> get C0A80002
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Clift, Robert suggested controlling the consistence of /etc/ethers /etc/hosts
and /etc/bootparams.
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Saxon, Stuart informed asked/suggested:
> Where did you get the mac address from {banner at OBP}
>
> and is
>
> within the OBP is local-mac-address set to true - it should be set to false
Thanks - that was wrong too.
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joe fletcher, Vladimir and Paul Greidanus suggested using jumpstart/flar utility (which
was the endsolution):
> Yesterday I've successfully cloned two Solaris 9 nodes with "flar" utility,
> which appeared in Solaris 8. You can find mode about it:
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/flash_archive.html
>
> The only unhandy thing - you need to recreate raid-1 on cloned node once
> again.
-
> It's possible, but I can't help on that end. Jumpstart shouldn't take
> more then a hour or two to get working, and it's a little more flexible
> if you need to clone more then one machine.
>
> Actually, the solaris installer CD should allow you to choose a flash
> archive installation, so you don't necessarily need a jumpstart server,
> just a flash archive somewhere on NFS.
They were right - setting up jumpstart doesn't take that long, and
though it wasn't the way I wanted to solve the problem, it was surely
the easier path. thanks.
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> Santhakumar, Siva suggested, that if I erally want to do this, I have to detach the
> devices, and clear a metadb
I didnt come to that, btu next time I will definitely try it.
with best regards,
charlie
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