Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
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>> I agree, but please make it possible to install without any running
>> nameservice.
>> By now I only need DHCP, TFTP and NFS during installation.
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> +1
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> Having to run a nameservice for net install would make live much harder
> for me also.
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I agree. IT should be doable without a Name service. To me DHCP, is a
type of name service (when you think of name service as a network based
database that can be queried for information) but I think there should
be some way to do it with out one at all. I left DHCP and 'something
new' in there exactly for r this purpose.
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>>> It should be the same for X86 and SPARC
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>> +1
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>>> As a slightly related suggestion, I would like to see GRUB (especially
>>> if it is to appear on SPARC) expanded to be more like OBP.
>>>
>> OBP is so much better than GRUB. Why do we need GRUB on SPARC?
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I wasn't trying to suggest we did. I'd prefer not to.but the text from
the other post that I quoted suggested that there was an idea if not a
plan to add (switch?) GRUB to Sparc.
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> We don't; we need grub on x86 because the BIOS is broken.
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> GRUB for SPARC would be a huge step back.
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+1 Agreed.
If anything I'd like to see grub extended to give more of the OBP
capabilities if not the syntax.
If grub could write back to the menu.lst or bootenv.rc file then
theoretically, Grub could have the equivalent of 'setenv', 'printenv'
and other OBP commands.
The problem for 'boot net' would be that the on-disk GRUB would need to
work with every network card that Solaris does, or be re-linked at
install time?
-Kyle
> Casper
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