Oh, network support (net-fs-root) got taken out at some point then. :-(
Apparently here:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source/commit/d6a47f43379aae363a27ab88378daffcdf1901f6
"Drop support for generating auto-install images"
That's an unfortunate casualty, as network booting was useful outs
Unfortunately not quite :)
The Shell scripts in slim_source[0] at this time only support mounting
usb or cdrom but downloading the .zlib files into a tmpfs could be
added. PR's Welcome :) Let me know if you need help how to modify the
script. OmniOSCE has it's own handling of installation whic
Hi Peter,
Many thanks for the reply.
I had tried this kernel option, but using the hostname rather than the IP.
Sadly using the IP gave the same result as before.
I also had read somewhere that iPXE is not capable of uncompressing the
boot_archive file so I uncompressed that file. I did proceed b
I *think* adding the following to the kernel line ought to do the trick
-B install_media=http://1.2.3.4/media/directory/
where the url there is the directory containing the solaris.zlib file (and
for some releases, any other zlib files).
You'll probably need to use the IP address.
On Thu, Sep 2
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched long and hard and
could not find what I really needed.
I have a working iPXE server with various Linux and Windows images served up
over HTTP.
For OI I tried the usual tricks of specifying the kernel and initrd and then
issuing a boot co
