On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Frank Allan <frank.allan at sun.com> wrote: > I have been using ZFS root on sparc using both Nevada and Solaris 10 for > quite some time. > I am in an environment where setting up an x86 AI installer is not feasible. > > Is it possible to install OpenSolaris on a new boot environment on a SPARC > system without an AI installer? > > Presumably if I can get this to happen on at least one system, then I could > use the AI images to update that system and use it an AI installer for other > SPARC systems. > > Given the lack of a standalone sparc install disk (for now), this appears to > be a possible way to get OpenSolaris up and running on SPARC systems without > x86 AI. > > Can it be done? >
It can technically be done as I have already implemented this for BeleniX 0.8 on x86: http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/belenix-0-8-alpha-using-network-installer/ That script can be re-whacked for OpenSolaris if someone wishes to do it. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
