Howdy I'm new to this thread but not Solaris in general.
I'm trying to get Solaris 10 jumpstart to work using a Linux server. The big problem I have is the apparent compatibility issues between Linux (2.6 kernel, tried both Fedora core 4 and 6) NFS version 4 (nfs-utils 1.0.7-8 and 1.0.10-5.fc6) and Solaris. I can take a working Solaris 10 and mount the NFS shares fine, but I have to put in a mount option '-overs=3' (version 3 instead of version 4); the other way is to change the /etc/defaults/nfs file (NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=4 default to 3). This is well-documented, but the problem is that I am not able to pass such an argument to the kernel during boot (in the grub menu.lst or anywhere else). And it also seems Solaris jumpstart has no way of setting the install_media option to a http server instead of an nfs mount (unlike linux systems' kickstarts). There's the url http option for the config files but not for the install_media. So if there's anyone out there who knows how to get the 'kernel' statement in grub menu.lst to do a version 3 NFS mount to a linux NFS share instead of the default version 4, I'd much appreciate it. I re-read the man pages on linux nfs and tried the newest version 4 (thus the nfs-utils-1.0.10-5), hoping that this would be compatible with Solaris's nfs client, but to no avail. -- One other desperate measure I attempted was to take the ramdisk (x86.miniroot) file in /tftpboot I86PC.Solaris_10-1 folder and gunzip it and either loop mount it to a temporary place (or use cpio -a), then modify the /etc/defaults/nfs file as above and re-gzip it back up to use it as the customized miniroot during jumpstart (this type of thing has worked fine for me in creating custom boot images in linux for usb device os installs, etc), but I have other errors in that process also in Solaris. Any help by someone who knows the jumpstart process better than what's in the documentation (I've read it over many times), who might be able to point me to how I can perhaps break down the grub boot process to loading the miniroot and then going into a shell and mounting the jumpstart server nfs manually (using -overs=3, etc.) and then resuming the installation process, would be _MUCH_ appreciated. Thanks in advance, Juan This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
