[geeks] Solaris 10 U6: install failure

[J. Alexander Jacocks]

Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>On Apr 6, 2009, at 09:57 , Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>    On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:34:17AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
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>        I have no idea how to create a Jumpstart server, if that is what you
>        mean.
>
>
>    http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2005-March/006223.html
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>    http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1299/settingup.pdf
>
>
>Sorry, I mean to say "without a Sun or Solaris machine".
>
>I tried once before to make a Jumpstart server with FreeBSD, but was never able to make it work after messing with it a few hours.  >Really hate to go down that path again.
>
>I think I'm going to see if there is a way to specify alternate media, or do the trick Andrew mentioned.

Shannon,

Did you consider installing Solaris x86 as a jumpstart server, under
Paralells, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox, on the Mac Pro?  I've used
VM-based jumpstart servers sucessfully many times in the past.
There's no problem jumping Solaris sparc from Solaris x86.

If you need details, SunManagers has had this topic brought up several
times, in the past.  Also, there are lots of good jumpstart articles
on Sun's BigAdmin site.

Drop me a line, off-list, if you need more help setting up jumpstart,
I'd be glad to help.

Good luck!