From: Jeff D. Allen (allen@cs.dal.ca)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 08:53:27 EST
Thanks to myself
I tried creating another flar this time while running in single user mode. The
first was created at a quiet run level 3. I boot the machine off the Solaris 9
boot server, select Flash, specify the file over NFS, and it is installing
right now.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:23:57AM -0400, Jeff D. Allen wrote:
> Background:
> Ultra 5 running Solaris 8
> Solaris 8 flash archive
> Solaris 9 boot server
>
> I created a flar from the client Ultra 5, uploaded it to our server. I
> installed a Soalris 9 boot server on the same machine, which runs Solaris 7. I
> can boot the client from the Solaris 9 install server and select flash as an
> installation method. I choose NFS as the retriveal type and specify the path
> to the flar file and it finds it. However when it starts to install it says it
> can not extract the Flash archive.
>
> When I tried using the flar with a JumpStart server, it gave a more detailed
> error mesage saying it could not write to the flar file.
>
> Any thoughts? Does the fact that the flar is of a Soalris 8 system matter?
>
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