Solaris

Hi All,

Is there a possible way to fully automate Solaris x86 jumpstart or make the x86 jumpstart unattended?

I'm currently checking the possible options on how can I do the x86 jumpstart to be kicked off during midnight.

We have an automated jumpstart (start to run from midnight) for Solaris 10 sparc, wherein we implemented it with shell script + expect script to pass the parameters and boot args, and Im looking at the possibility of doing this for Solaris 10 x86 as well.

Any insights are well appreciated on which scripting mechanism (ie. expect script) I need to use to automate the connection to ILOM? Load the GRUB Menu and choose option from the GRUB Menu?

Thanks in advance.
//racbern

for a normal jumpstart install you won't need "expect"?! have a look for a tool called JET (jumpstart enterprise toolkit) on the sun website. this will help you automate jumpstart on sparc and x86 systems.
the only difference between sparc and x86 is the need of a dhcp server for giving an ip to your nic. there a lots of good docs about jumpstart on "docs.sun.com"!

racbern, I happen to know exactly what you are doing here.

DN2, this is post install, there are some application parameters and sizing questions that have to be answered after the first boot.

You can do exactly the same as on Sparc, the only difference is that you need to update the grub kernel boot like to add "-B console=ttya" to the kernel line, then you get the console on the text based ILOM and you can continue to answering the configuration questions.

The easiest way to get this working is to do the first run using autoexpect and then edit the generated script.