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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris Jumpstart and Flash Archives Post 77564 by pressy on Monday 11th of July 2005 06:10:13 AM

07-11-2005

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as reborg said, a flasharchive is "just" a collection of packages and configuration files. not a real harddisk image. so if you install from a flasharchive, there are still the same files like in a normal jumpenviroment. so the new hostnames and ips and partitions are provided in the same way:
defaults settings for your subnet in sysidcfg.
in your rules file is an entry of the mashine:
hostname NEWNAME - profile.flash -
or if you use the any option like link the maschines to an extra flash profile:
any - - profile.flash -
the name will be taken from your /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files like:
grep NEWNAME /etc/ethers
0:3:ba:d2:bb:cc NEWNAME
grep NEWNAME /etc/hosts
192.168.133.xxx NEWNAME
in the profile.flash you can provide the same specific option as on other installation profiles, expample:

Code:

install_type flash_install
archive_location nfs masterip:/flash/flasharchive
pratitioning explicit
  filesys c0t0d0s0 free /
  filesys c0t0d0s1 2048 swap
  filesys c0t0d0s3 4096 /var

i've testet the jumpstart with flasharchives in a gigabit network with a patched default installation on V880s and the server was ready after 5 minutes ;-) ... but anyway you can still use a start and finish script with flasharchives so feel free to costumize your image afterwarts...

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curs_beep(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions						curs_beep(3CURSES)

NAME

       curs_beep, beep, flash - curses bell and screen flash routines

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lcurses [ library ... ]
       #include <curses.h>

       int beep(void);

       int flash(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  beep() and flash() routines are used to signal the terminal user. The routine beep() sounds the audible alarm on the terminal, if pos-
       sible; if that is not possible, it flashes the screen (visible bell), if that is possible. The routine flash() flashes the screen,  and	if
       that  is not possible, sounds the audible signal. If neither signal is possible, nothing happens. Nearly all terminals have an audible sig-
       nal (bell or beep), but only some can flash the screen.

RETURN VALUES

       These routines always return OK.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       curses(3CURSES), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The header <curses.h> automatically includes the headers  <stdio.h> and <unctrl.h>.

SunOS 5.10							    31 Dec 1996 						curs_beep(3CURSES)