mark lamourine - Sun Microsystems - Burlington United States wrote: > Forgive me if I've missed a previous thread, and point me to it. > > I'd like to boot and install os200805 from my existing *cough*linux > based*cough* PXE install server. > > The solaris 10 tftp area contains a file named 'multiboot' from the > media. the pxegrub config indicates that the 'multiboot' file is loaded > as the kernel. > > I don't find a copy of multiboot on the os200805 media. > > Has anyone tried/succeeded at this? Can i just pull a sol10 or sol11 x64 > multiboot binary and place it in tftpboot, add a reference to menu.lst > matching that for sol10 and expect it to work? >
No. > If not, what are the current issues with pxe booting os200805? > It's not designed for that, it's very specifically built to be a live CD. The Automated Installation portion of the Caiman project is developing network installation capability for OpenSolaris, see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ There is a prototype you can play with, but it's not intended for general use. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
