Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

2022-09-22 Thread Peter Tribble
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

2022-09-22 Thread Till Wegmueller
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

2022-09-22 Thread Fox Martin
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

2022-09-22 Thread Peter Tribble
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

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Net booting OI Hipster using iPXE

2022-09-22 Thread Fox Martin
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