[geeks] Solaris 10 U6: install failure

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>  
wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2009, at 09:57 , Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:34:17AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> I have no idea how to create a Jumpstart server, if that is what you
>>> mean.
>>
>> http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2005-March/006223.html
>>
>> http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1299/settingup.pdf
>
> Sorry, I mean to say "without a Sun or Solaris machine".
>
> I tried once before to make a Jumpstart server with FreeBSD, but was  
> never able to make it work after messing with it a few hours.   
> Really hate to go down that path again.
>
> I think I'm going to see if there is a way to specify alternate  
> media, or do the trick Andrew mentioned.

Just for the sake of completeness, what about running Solaris in a VM  
on one of your other machines (virtualbox is pretty nice), and running  
an install server off that? Of course that requires that your T105 can  
"boot net" in a manner Solaris install server can use (I've only done  
it net booting SPARC boxes, not PXE booting non-sun i386 boxes...

Lionel