Hi Paul, * Paul B. Henson (henson at acm.org) wrote: > > We've been prototyping a ZFS-based file server with Solaris 10. Based on > the announcement from Sun that they are going to provide support for > openSolaris, we are evaluating migrating our project. > > It looks like there is no automated install yet? We have a very efficient > jumpstart configuration for Solaris 10, it only takes about five minutes of > interactive time to get a box from bare iron to fully deployed server. > > I see a very nice requirements and design document for an automated > installer, but based on the archives of this mailing list it doesn't look > like it's going to be available in the short to mid term.
Correct. It's underway. There's no timetable for it's inclusion at this point. > It doesn't look like there is a way to at least network boot the install > image, am I mistaken or do you need to physically insert a CD into the > server for the installation? Nope, there is no network boot support for OpenSolaris 2008.05. > Are there any viable workaround options to decrease the interactive time > required for installation or define a standard configuration and > installation without having to select options each time? Not as of yet. One of the main goals of OpenSolaris 2008.05 is to attract developers. So in that context some of the 'enterprise' features aren't there, yet. Cheers, Glenn
