Solaris 10 Jumpstart

Our group inherited a bunch of SPARC workstations. It had been a while since I had tackled jumpstart, so with these extra machines, I decided to give it a go. First up was reloading one of the machines with Sol 10. Unfortunately we didn't have the passwords for any of these boxes, but I wanted to start fresh anyway. I took the defaults for the install, but selected ZFS for the export partition. I had a bit of a problem, since these machines will not be allowed on our network. The machine kept wanting to set up its interface. Finally I had to set it up as a standalone.

Over the weekend I picked up a wireless router to use it as a DHCP server. That did the trick, it allowed be to get the network access I would need to set up the jumpstart server and client enviroment.

I had previously downloaded the Solaris 10, update DVD. Many of the direction I found referred to the OS as being on cdroms, with the OS spread over a number of CDs. I took the DVD route. My jumpstart server has an ip address of 192.168.1.101, my client will be 192.168.1.102. 101 is called guajome-dome, while .102 will be called brownwrap.

1. I created a jumpstart directory: mkdir /export/jumpstart

2. Then went to the Tools directory of the install DVD:

cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_10/Tools

3. Ran the script to create the jumpstart server:

./setup_install_server /export/jumpstart

4. I then had to set up some services on the server, guajome-dome. I modiled /etc/inetd.conf and uncommented the tftp line to allow the client, brownwrap, to tftp to guajome-dome to grab the installation.

Then ran inetconv to add the service to the Service Management Facility (SFM).

Then enabled the service: svcadm enable tftpd

5. I then created a config directory: mkdir /export/jumpstart/config

and added two files to it sysidcfg and rules.

sysidcfg:

network_interface=primary {netmask=255.255.255.0}
security_policy=none
timezone=US/Mountain
system_locale=en_US
install_locale=en_US
name-service=none

rules:

hostname brownwrap - profile -

profile:

install_type initial_install
cluster SUNWCXall
partitionig explicit
filesystem
system_type standalone