Re: Installing Debian from NFS
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:49:47PM -0500, RR wrote: Hello, this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just Google but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on my local NFS server as opposed to just picking up the boot.img and then have the rest of it be downloaded from the Internet. I have a LOT of SUN machines to install and it'd be cool if I can just install them off the distro on the nfs server. The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files all setup. You'll also need either bootparamd or dhcpd set up. I have the boot.img from Debian Lenny for sparc in /tftpboot and also have the hex and decimal/AF_INET format of the intended IP Address soft-linked to this boot.img in the /tftpboot directory i.e. 0A01030B - boot.img. I've go this as C0A8000F.SUN4M - sparcroot/boot/tftpboot.img The debug log of the daemons above will tell you exactly whan name the SUN machine is looking for. I also have the entire debian-DVD-lenny.iso available and is mounted on /mnt/iso by way of lofiadm so that /mnt/iso has the contents of the ISO and not the bundled iso image. Now, how do I tell the installer to go pick it up from there? I have done a bit of research and all I see everywhere is mentions of some file called root.tar.gz and debian-installer and what not...but I can't figure out where do I get that from. I have tried: ok boot net Should be enough to get thing started. I hope it prints out that it's trying to in touch with a bootp server. Martin and ok boot net - install nfsroot=10.1.3.1:/mnt/iso and ok boot net install Any one wish to comment? Thanks so much \RR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110217231243.GB24381@palantir8
Re: Installing Debian from NFS
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Martin Habets errandir_n...@mph.eclipse.co.uk wrote: The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files all setup. You'll also need either bootparamd or dhcpd set up. I don't believe that's required by Debian. Bootparamd is required by Solaris for a jumpstart. Also, I have installed Debian previously over the network without a DHCPd running, purely using rarp and then assigning a manual IP address which is what I needed to assign to it anyway I have the boot.img from Debian Lenny for sparc in /tftpboot and also have the hex and decimal/AF_INET format of the intended IP Address soft-linked to this boot.img in the /tftpboot directory i.e. 0A01030B - boot.img. I've go this as C0A8000F.SUN4M - sparcroot/boot/tftpboot.img The debug log of the daemons above will tell you exactly whan name the SUN machine is looking for. This is specific to the machine architecture. Ultrasparc machines with the Sun4U architecture do not require an extension and can simply be installed with the filename as shown above I have tried: ok boot net Should be enough to get thing started. I hope it prints out that it's trying to in touch with a bootp server. yes, it does get the machine installed, and it IS currently up and running. The only problem is that I had to install it using the Internet as opposed to a local repo. It's ok for 1 machine but when I need to install a bunch of them, it'll be an unnecessary waste of our data download budget, which is why apt-cacher-ng seemed such a good solution, but I can't get it to compile on Solaris 8 on Sparc. Still waiting on Eduard to find the time to be able to play it himself to see if he can make it work in a VM or something :(
Re: Installing Debian from NFS
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:49 -0500, RR wrote: Hello, this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just Google but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on my local NFS server as opposed to just picking up the boot.img and then have the rest of it be downloaded from the Internet. I have a LOT of SUN machines to install and it'd be cool if I can just install them off the distro on the nfs server. How about FAI ? http://fai-project.org/ This is based around PXE Boot, NFS root file system for installer and unattended install. Slightly fiddly to get started, but afterwards it is smooth sailing. The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files all setup. I have the boot.img from Debian Lenny for sparc in /tftpboot and also have the hex and decimal/AF_INET format of the intended IP Address soft-linked to this boot.img in the /tftpboot directory i.e. 0A01030B - boot.img. I also have the entire debian-DVD-lenny.iso available and is mounted on /mnt/iso by way of lofiadm so that /mnt/iso has the contents of the ISO and not the bundled iso image. Now, how do I tell the installer to go pick it up from there? I have done a bit of research and all I see everywhere is mentions of some file called root.tar.gz and debian-installer and what not...but I can't figure out where do I get that from. I have tried: ok boot net and ok boot net - install nfsroot=10.1.3.1:/mnt/iso and ok boot net install Any one wish to comment? Thanks so much \RR -- Karl E. Jørgensen IT Operations Fizzback Group
Re: Installing Debian from NFS
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:49 -0500, RR wrote: The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files all setup. I have the boot.img from Debian Lenny for sparc in /tftpboot and also have the hex and decimal/AF_INET format of the intended IP Address soft-linked to this boot.img in the /tftpboot directory i.e. 0A01030B - boot.img. I also have the entire debian-DVD-lenny.iso available and is mounted on /mnt/iso by way of lofiadm so that /mnt/iso has the contents of the ISO and not the bundled iso image. Now, how do I tell the installer to go pick it up from there? I have done a bit of research and all I see everywhere is mentions of some file called root.tar.gz and debian-installer and what not...but I can't figure out where do I get that from. Did it in the past several time's. Google searching on Debian Sparc Netboot installs I found a blog article. Think it covers your needs. http://www.de-brauwer.be/docs/debian_on_sun.html The stable netboot image is available in the repo. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/ Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296682275.1637.39.camel@deblnxsrv222
