Installing Solaris Express on a T1000
How?
Seriously, how do I do this?
Following constraints: T1000 has no local DVD drive. No other Solaris hosts on network.
(Note that it takes about 15 seconds to find the Debian install instructions. “Put this file on tftp server, boot.”)
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Hi!
The machine you have is running Solaris Express :)
To do an upgrade you need to set up a TFTP server and do a network boot/install.
Cheers,
-Brian
Yeah, found that out okay. The only issue is finding out what to put on the TFTP server (apart from guessing).
wanting to do fresh install so can have ZFS root.
It is doable, but not particularly so. Copy the entire CD to some directory, share that directory via NFS. For TFTP, copy Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/platform/sun4v/inetboot from that directory to /tftpboot, then symlink it to the IP in hex. You then have two options: rarp + bootparams or dhcpd. For bootparams, you want something like
manbo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au root=130.95.13.60:/stuffs/install/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot install=130.95.13.60:/stuffs/install boottype=:in rootopts=:rsize=8192
(change IPs as appropriate). For (ISC, the one used on Linux) DHCP,
http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=117 (found via google search for “solaris net install isc dhcp”) looks like it has the details.
Now, if only there was some document at sun.com that said that….