From: Andrew Deason on
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:52:24 +0000 (UTC)
Cydrome Leader <presence(a)MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:

> In alt.solaris.x86 YTC#1 <bdp(a)ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Which bits in particular are causing trouble ?
>
> By using a non-sun DHCP server, we finally got a kernel to boot.
> rules never worked, ever. Nobody at sun could get it to work either,
> which doesn't surprise me as they keep changing all the secret
> paramaters and settings every 9 seconds with their junior attempts as
> PXE booting.
>
> To this day, there's still no accurate or even close to upto date doc
> on jumpstarting sun stuff with PXE where the commands as they show
> actually work. There's some "blueprint" from 2006 or so. it's
> completely useless.

I can assure you this has worked for me:
<http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/admin/wiki/Jumpstart>. That is incomplete as it
doesn't document the framework for begin/finish scripts, but you
shouldn't care about that unless you want to use our begin/finish script
framework.

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Andrew Deason
adeason2(a)uiuc.edu