I've got one tiny silly question. Yes, I think mdns and the things that you can do with it is pretty cool.
However, given that you still require a dhcp server for the initial boot, why can't you host all the information that mdns would be providing there? Seems to me that you end up having to maintain both a dhcp server AND an mdns server. Surely there should be an option for it to all be held in DNS, or have some hook in the menu.lst.MACADDRESS file which contains a pointer to some config file somewhere? Mike Jon K Aimone wrote: > Hi, > > Thanx everyone for the responses... > > These answers explain how to coexist, but puts someone in our group > back in the business of maintaining a system running Opensolaris > dedicated as an install server... at least until we can negotiate with > our lab support folks to accept/manage an install server running > Opensolaris. > > And I would rephrase Eric's comment a bit. Many of our customers > maintain only one install server for a data center (or collection of > subnets), and they have extremely protracted acceptance practices for > new operating systems in their infrastructure. They may be willing to > experiment with/test Opensolaris on a limited set of test machines, > but they treat infrastructure as sacred. Without a way to install > Opensolaris from their existing [Solaris 10/9] install server they're > likely to be reluctant adopt Opensolaris until we offer them a > solution that does not increase the number of machines counted as > infrastructure. > > Sundar Yamunachari said the following on 01/29/09 10:29: >> Eric, Jon: >> The OpenSolaris requirement for Install server applies to the >> machine where you create install services. As Jan Damborsky pointed >> out in an earlier mail, we are using a technology (dns-sd and mDNS) >> that is supported only in OpenSolaris and recent versions of Nevada. >> So we have to use a system that supports dns-sd and mDNS. To make >> setting up install server simpler, we want to use the IPS , which >> installs the dependent packages of our install tools package >> (SUNWinstalladm-tools) automatically. >> You can still use your existing DHCP server and do the >> OpenSolaris Install. You can make any of the machine in your lab as >> the OpenSolaris install server. What we have done in our lab is that >> we continue to use a Solaris 10 DHCP server that serves Solaris 9, >> Solaris 10, Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris. We took a test machine >> and installed OpenSolaris 11/08 using livecd installer. We followed >> the instructions and made it as an install server for OpenSOlaris. We >> already have an intsall server that is used for installing Solaris >> (which is same as DHCP server). So it is possible to coexist with a >> lab that was setup for installing Solaris Nevada, Solaris 10 and older. >> >> Thanks, >> Sundar >> >> Eric J. Ray wrote: >>> All, >>> What's the plan--long term--to address situations like this? >>> Clearly we cannot assume that OpenSolaris is the only Install >>> server in a lab... >>> Eric >>> >>> >>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Jon Aimone wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Another question has popped up recently regarding install servers. >>>> >>>> Here my situation: >>>> Caiman requires OpenSolaris. >>>> Our lab contains only one install/bootp/dhcp server. >>>> It's running Solaris 10. >>>> I do not control the install server, so I cannot simply upgrade it >>>> to Opensolaris. >>>> Installing several hundred machines on a regular basis (many of them >>>> multiple times a week) does not seem practical (it's slow through >>>> the firewall). >>>> >>>> How do I get Opensolaris to coexist on my current install server? >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >> > > -- > ~~~~\0/~~~~ > Cheers, > Jon. > {-%] > ======== > If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've > always gotten. > - Anon. > -------- > When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents > in, what happens to the other penny? > - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) > ======== > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3237 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090130/1f46bfef/attachment.bin>
