Clay Baenziger wrote: > Hi Dave, > Yes bootp is the depreciated DHCP predecessor both of which are > different than the Sun bootparams stuff - thank you! > Well my thought was someone could easily load the Solaris media > into a spare partition (i.e. coopt another OS' swap partition for a bit) > and load the bits to install on to disk (say from a downloaded iso), but > without having to actually install Solaris (a lot easier to ask a customer > give us around 3 gigs on a disk for a little while than, "Hey install this > whole OS." However, as it's widely documented how to serve JumpStart bits > off Solaris (vs. some other OS) it would be relatively similar and > straight forward was the hope. > I'm afraid despite my system administration work I may not realize > quite all that'd be needed to do this (i.e. I'm not sure what package > provides and serves /etc/bootparams which is needed even for a PXE boot I > believe).
bootparams is only needed if you use RARP for address assignment. DHCP provides everything itself. > So, my thought was if the live CD has NFS, TFTP, DHCP (instead of > bootp - since a DHCP server can serve bootp requests), and > whatever serves bootparams then one could use the live CD as an ad hoc > JumpStart server pretty easily and for someone in say the Try & Buy > program without a DVD drive, ad hoc is their key requirement. Similarly, > from a sys. admin. perspective being able to provide a quick JumpStart > server can be helpful too. > Feels kind of awkward to be arguing against including the DHCP server I spent so many years working on ;-) Nevertheless, while I agree there's likely a demand for a Jumpstart server appliance, I'm skeptical that our default, desktop-oriented live CD is really suited so well for that role at this point - there's too much other stuff you need to set up. I'd think a pre-canned VM or DVD with everything included would be a more attractive solution. Dave
