On 2012-09-20 17:11, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hi, sure boot environments are there, inside illumos kernel. About networked installtion, probably this is a different thing. If I well remember, there was some kind of software you may add to Solaris 10 to make it a network installation server, do you think it's still available and usable with illumos?
Well, it was a number of different softwares (and the source must still be available in SXCE branch, if that is published anywhere). Basically, a Solaris install server was a mix of BOOTP/DHCP/TFTP server which took care of the new machine getting an IP address and pointers to the installation server and the bootloader image. In case of SPARC and X86 this was done differently, the latter relying on PXE and DHCP, and SPARC doing BOOTP. I think both used TFTP to ultimately get the bootloader or a small installer miniroot. The install server was essentially a TFTP server with the installer miniroot image and an NFS server with a copy of the DVDs. It could also optionally have a JumpStart directory with profiles of different clients to automate setup of things, like package profiles and disk layouts, but this almost did not use ZFS, allowing just some trivial things at best. The two servers were usually set up on one box, but could be separated (i.e. one central installation server and many boot servers, one available in each subnet of the organization). There was also a project called UberJS which implemented similar logic (installer, jumpstart profiles, packages) on a standalone DVD that you could customize and burn. If LAN connectivity was available, the DVD could update host profiles after boot; otherwise it was sufficient to install different things on different hosts from same physical media. I guess nowadays an install server might serve an installer miniroot preconfigured (or fetching a config-update file over net) to use the install server as an IPS repo for packages. I haven't seen this with illumos, so can't say whether this still exists in the live code repo; you can look at AI images for example. HTH, //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
