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
