Solaris

Hi,

I'm very new to Solaris world and istarted my learnign with a Blade T6320 Server.

I was trying to install Solaris 10.8 from a DVD image over the network.
But from the client(the machine which i want to install Solaris) when i tried boot net , i am getting a message like " cannto find boot_archive or miniroot "

What all i did are:

Added client's MAC address to T2000's ethers file
Added entry for client in T2000's hosts file
Copied the DVD image to T2000 as per the Sun document.
Added client by using add_install_client.

Since both these servers are in same subnet , as per the document i don't want to have a boot server.

Can someone suggest me what will be the problem.
any help will be much appretiated.

Thanks,
jerin

i recommend to use JET... read about it here:

BigAdmin: JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit

Can you verify that /export/install/media/Solaris_10/boot is mounted to some file in /tftpboot.
For example in case for x86 its mounted as:
/tftpboot/I86PC.Solaris_10-1 on /export/install/media/Solaris_10/boot

Since this is your first post, first a recommendation. Be specific as to what you did and what errors you are getting.
Statements like "added client by using add_install_client" or " I get an error like something" don't really tell what exactly you did or the error you got.. For example, the add_install_client command takes a few arguments which can drastically change the outcome depending which arguments you used.

Now, whether you are on the same subnet or not, the client has to boot from something. If you tell the client to go and boot from the net (as you said your command was "boot net" ) the client will try to find something on the net to boot from, i.e., a boot server. Since both boxes are on the same subnet, you could set the install server to function as the boot server as well.

check the /etc/bootparams file that the client's entry is in the 1st line and in "one line" and not broken into two

Thanks for all the replies.

The issue got resolved.

I recreated install server once again and added the client.

I'm not sure what was wrong with the first install server . In both cases i followed the document from Sun.


Thanks again for the responses..

jerry..