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Re: boot server os X -> solaris, ipod, and SUCCESS!

sean and all,

got it- with some inspiration from one of the authors of the sun
jumpstart book (interested?- buy it), and jed's helpful suggestion to
look carefully at the netinfo man page, i finally got it: i am now
installing solaris 2.8 from my mcTiPoBook. it was my lack of ability
to read the osX man page carefully enough to implement the bootparams
PROPERTY information properly, which kept me from getting it earlier.
btw, at least mr. howard at sun did this before me...

sean, i'll put together some "how-to" doc and send later- now you can
make a case with the money holders to buy you a new mcTiPoBook install
server for those hundreds of machines you have to install.

i haven't done it yet, but as i suggested earlier, i would highly
recommend you investigate the flash install method, since you have a
bunch of machines of the same type. it is described in detail in the
sun blueprints book (mentioned above): "JumpStart Technology" by john
s. howard and alex noordergraaf, isbn: 0-13-062154-4. you need that
one anyway, sean. good luck. go for the 800 mhz, and i will be
supremely jealous...

thanks again to everyone for their help. : )

david



--- Sean <email@hidden> wrote:
> Are you using a ufs or hfs+ filesystem on the mac to store the
> Solaris /dev info on? I would guess HFS+ would screw things up.
>
> If you havent, try the GNU tar, the tar included with Sun is a tad
> different. The GNU tar _might_ work. The same thing on the Apple
> side.
>
> Offtopic, but I would love to see Sun support booting from firewire.
> I think it would be kick ass to boot my blade from my iPod. I would
> also
> like to see solaris support it too but...
>
> If you DO get this working I might invest in a G4 portable so can
> you post to the list? =) I need to have my Zenith 386sx portable
> replaced
> at work anyway and I might convince them they have to buy it instead
> of
> me if it works. =) I have to upgrade 80 Sun servers this month.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Jed Davis wrote:
>
> > david steed <email@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > all,
> > >
> > > i've identified the issue with using os X as a boot server-
> bootparamd
> > > with the -d issue tells me it knows which client is making a
> request,
> > > but it doesn't know the "bootparam root." this is just before
> the nfs
> > > stage (that is working properly in tests). i can't tell if it is
> > > actually reading the /etc/bootparams file or not.
> >
> > The last time I tried to use it, I eventually figured out that it
> > ignored the file /etc/bootparams and used the bootparams key of the
> > client's NetInfo node under /machines, as described in the man page
> > netinfo(5). For instance, dredging up the property I used:
> >
> > jdev@Snefru$ nicl . cat machines/rubisco bootparams
> :~
> > bootparams: root=Snefru:/Volumes/Storage/rubisco/netbsd/root
> gateway=132.162.33.1:255.255.0.0
> >
> > (bootparamd also needs the ip_address key, of course).
> >
> > --Jed
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