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Old 02-25-2015
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Originally Posted by LittleLebowski
Good catch (see below) but now I need to get firewall rules opened up so that I can upload the new firmware. Thank you!

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***Update***, hicksd8 is close on his recommendation. However, OBP 4.27 is the minimum version per this article and this server does meet that standard but it does not recognize any USB thumb drives inserted so far.

I have had no luck so far. I believe that mounting the USB installation image from another box might be my best approach.
I'd feel safer installing from a CD/DVD ISO image if that's what you're going to do. I don't know what the differences in the images are, but a USB image might not work for a CD-based install.

Probably easier to run a long ethernet cable and just jumpstart the servers from your AI/IPS servers.

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To clarify, my situation is that we have AI instances on our local IPS boxes. However, we have issues getting ports to said IPS boxes from our new servers that we must build. I have been tasked with finding a way to avoid making and waiting on requests to open up ports as our security team is not only slow but often works in a.....not detail oriented fashion Smilie
But you're allowed to install software from USB drives you fill up with bits you download from the internet?

Oooooh-kay.
# 9  
Old 02-25-2015
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Originally Posted by achenle
I'd feel safer installing from a CD/DVD ISO image if that's what you're going to do. I don't know what the differences in the images are, but a USB image might not work for a CD-based install.

Probably easier to run a long ethernet cable and just jumpstart the servers from your AI/IPS servers.

But you're allowed to install software from USB drives you fill up with bits you download from the internet?

Oooooh-kay.
I cannot physically run a long ethernet cable from the IPS server to this new server.

Insofar as the downloaded software, I agree with the silliness of the matter but the situation will not change and is out of my hands.
# 10  
Old 02-26-2015
So it seems that your OBP version should be okay for booting from USB.
(Apologies for the confusion over V4.27 vs V4.72, I must have remembered it wrongly).

So you have downloaded the Solaris 11.2 USB text install file.

How did you create your USB stick from it?? Needs to be created using dd or usbcopy.
# 11  
Old 03-04-2015
did you used it on any other version of Solaris
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