Wednesday, December 27, 2006

How to build a Solaris bootable CDROM

One would think this would be a simple task. Half the commerical packages
proclaim that they can do it. But alas, for me, none of them worked.

The task was to create a system installer that would boot a sun, load up
the appropriate system images and tools required for a server in our
environment. Yes, this is a perfect job for jumpstart, but the systems
would be distributed across the state and not connected via a fast enough
pipe to use jumpstart effectivly. The other option was to build external
disks with the proper images on them and boot from there. The cost of
producing a few hundrad of these was prohibitive, thus the CDROM approach
was taken.

http://www.uni-koeln.de/rrzk/Abt-Systeme/sun/infos/SUN-MANAGERS//1998/Februar-html/msg00015.html 

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