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Network DVD booting?
Hello guys.
As my first post I'd like to briefly day that I work with unix relatively often but nothing too advanced however I am an enthusiast and learn quickly.
After doing some reading I was able today (For the first time) to perform a network solaris installation (Solaris 10) by using another solaris server as the install server.
My problem starts in the fact that my next step is usually to boot from a second DVD which performs a veritas SF installation. This usually goes by me booting into the DVD (By running "boot cdrom - install" from the OK prompt) and after a few seconds I get a question of which disk to install Veritas to and then it starts extracting the whole thing.
After I found out that this DVD also contains the Solaris_10/Tools directory, I proceeded to create the install server, adding the client machine and then doing "boot net - install". Everything looked fine except that instead of getting the question of where to install Veritas and then the extraction, I was thrown inside the Solaris installation procedure again (Asking which nic interfaces to configure and so forth).
What am I doing wrong? How can I boot a DVD from the network in the exact same way that it would have booted from the physical media?
For information, this is Sparc Solaris 10, platform is sun4v, on a T5220 Sun machine.
I am not using jumpstart, no configuration files or anything. Oh and if anybody is wondering the reason I am booting from the network is because the DVD reader of the second server is broken and it usually takes too long to replace so I am trying to cut down on time (Plus I am eager to learn).
Regards
NooK
Last edited by NooK; 09-08-2011 at 06:21 PM..