Shawn Walker wrote: > Christian Kaiser wrote: >> Shawn Walker wrote: >>> Christian Kaiser wrote: >>>> Christian Kaiser wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I want to setup a diskless OpenSolaris client. Chapter 7 of the >>>>> Solaris System Administration Guide (Basic Administation) explains >>>>> how a client can be installed with the help of PXE (not what I am >>>>> interested in) and later how a client can be booted with PXE, >>>>> pxegrub in my case as it is a x86 machine. >>>>> >>>>> I wonder if I can follow the instructions of the guide and if the >>>>> packages are available in OpenSolaris because the guide is for >>>>> Solaris users and not OpenSolaris, right? >>>> Can't believe that nobody knows to answer this question... >>> The short answer is "No"; you can't use that guide for OpenSolaris >>> 2008.05. >>> >>> You might be able to use it for SXCE builds, but I wouldn't expect >>> that to hold true in the coming months. >>> >> But I read of some people that have been booting OpenSolaris of a NFS. >> Is that possible? > > With Solaris Express Community Edition, as far as I know, yes. > >> And what about using pxegrub to boot the OpenSolaris Kernel? Is that >> possible? > > As far as I'm aware, pxe support, etc. is still in its early stages for > the OpenSolaris 2008 distribution. > > You might ask on install-discuss.
This may prove helpful as well: http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/05/24/pxe-net-booting-open-solaris-200805-release/ -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
