As per my observations, not from any official spec. The wanboot cgi program is installed on the system when you install the current solaris. The topic of how to publish your own ips packages builds upon the structure and information contained in part 1 and part 2. Using wan boot from a hard disk on a system running solaris 9. Command to check firmware version of hp x86 server on which solaris installed. All went as you indicated until the system tried to dhcp. Ip address, netmask, default gateway, hostname, and also who is going to provide the wanboot cgi our boot install server. How to configure automated installer on solaris 11.
Oracle solaris automated installer technetworkserverstoragesolaris11downloadsindex. This section shows you exactly how to boot a sparc or x86 client. An install server can have more than one install service. A resilver kicked off automatically and after that all was well. Oracles docs claim you need a dhcp server, and to run mdns, to install over the network. Installing clients installing oracle solaris 11 systems oracle docs. Installing clients installing oracle solaris 11 systems. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. This file is included in the optional components zip package, which you download from the. Oracle solaris 11 information library, transitioning your oracle solaris 10 system to oracle solaris 11. If you not have it then you can download one for free after registration from this address. Following the steps below will allow you to use static ip. How to create a local solaris 11 package repository, installing and.
Hello, i have problems with automated installer on solaris 11. Oracle solaris 11 11 11 text installer and command line oracle solaris 11 11 11 automated install. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. Solaris 11 sparc wanboot notes boot network zivo nix blog. Jumpstarting to sparc servers with bootp on solaris 10 was very simple and straight forward, especially for those who didnt or couldnt run dhcp on their server networks. Download solaris 11 text base installation image for x86 or sparc, whatever platform you. Insert the solaris dvd in the sparc system s drive. Brad hudson studies on unix, linux, virtualization, and. Find knowledge base articles by searching for keywords in the title e.
Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. For example, the wanboot cgi program will be installed in a location where it can be served by the web server software that is installed on the server host. This setup will give complete handsoff process of installing and configuring the system. Configuring the wan boot server oracle solaris 10 910. First of first you need solaris sparc 10 dvd install image. How to set up automated installation server on solaris 11 tech. Now that we have the base release of solaris 11 in our repo, apply it the latest updates. Setting up solaris provisioning documentation for truesight server. We already have an oracle vm cluster with of spare resources. It is not on oracles hcl but it is on supermicros solaris 11. This guide provides instructions for installing the oracle solaris 11 operating system. The wanboot cgi program reads nf and sends the location of the wan boot binary to the client. It is a primer for the information covered below, so you should read it to assist with the information that follows. When you use the networkbootarguments variable, the sparc client does not have dns configuration information.
Configuring static ip client for automatic installer. After download this image you can burn it to dvd disk or direct mount in solaris as lofi device. I need to setup a solaris wanboot and a solaris jumpstart server for both sparc and x86 architectures. So the easiest way for me to get access to a solaris 11 system was to download a template. For wan boot installation path to the cgibin directory on the install. Create a separate install service for each client hardware architecture and each different version of the oracle solaris 11 os that you want to install. Get started download packages packages see full software list. Ensure that the ai manifest that is used with the client specifies an ip address instead of a host. Overview as typically is the case for me, this set of blogs is the result of several customers asking a similar question.
Create an ai install service installing oracle solaris 11. Jul 11, 2009 i used your procedure on an old x1, kinda. Create an install service for each client architecture, sparc or x86, and for each version of the oracle solaris operating system you want to be able to install. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatch solaris 10 wanboot minirootimage 20070710t16. Download iso image for sparc unattended installations. Installing oracle solaris by using ai transitioning from. The client boots and gets ip address and the bootfile, wanboot cgi, from the dhcp server.
The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. This entry was posted in password, solaris 11 and tagged lost, password, recover, reset, root, solaris11, sparc, x86. Download solaris 10 1009 operating system dvd full for solaris 10 os, sparc, multilanguage. Copy the wanbootcgi program to the wan boot server oracle. It doesnt have a cd but it already had another version of solaris installed, so i copied wanboot into the platformsunw,ultraaxi2 directory and did a boot disk. Wan boot is a new method for installing a machine running the solaris operating system from a solaris jumpstart server over the network. In official oracle documentation, you require a dhcp in order to configure ai server for your environment. Ganrate and obtain from oracle a certificate to reach the support repository from oracle certificate generator once generated to iinstall the oracle solaris 11 support certificate follow the below steps. Basically, i want to install solaris on several t2000 machines and i probably wont have the luxury of having the installation server in the same subnet. Specifies the url of the wanboot cgi program on the web server.
Steps to create a network boot install server for sparc server on solaris 11. At the moment, im using a solaris 11 x86 machine to bootstrap putting the install files in the right place, but i. This is a placeholder of work in progress overview in the previous step i showed how to create a clone archive, which you use to quickly and reliably deploy the same packages and configuration to tens or hundreds of systems, logical domains virtual machines, or solaris zones. Oracle 1z0580 solaris 11 bootcamp implimentation specialist. Wanboot technical overview this page is a writeup to summarize the technical data flow behind the scenes, for solaris wanboot. Can i setup both on a single machine sparc or x86 or do i need a separate sparc and x86 mach. Sparc client installations opensolaris automated installer. However due to various issues with solaris 10 releases, patching of the miniroot. I tried provision solaris 11 on my t51b server from ops center, but ai set wrong ip address for manifest smf. Configuring static ip client for automatic installer solaris 11.
Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. This is the last of my threepart miniseries on ips, the image packaging system, for oracle solaris 11. Ai is replacement for jumpstart server which was exists in the previous version of solaris. Wanboot flash archive installation procedure by ramdev published june 12, 2014 updated july 2, 2015 this document is a stepbystep procedure on how to create a flash archive and also start an apache web server to install solaris 10 os via wanboot. Instead of removing root from etcftpdftpusers and modifying the etcnf file on both local and remote machines.
How to setup a soalris 11 package repository elis blog. Dec 23, 20 here we will see how we can install solaris 11 with precustomized profile. In addition, clients which do not support wan boot installations from the obp may be booting from a cdrom, from where they will acquire the wanboot application. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. Extract the zipfiles into some suitable location like vartmpsru. Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on wget. The wanboot cgi program creates the data streams that transmit the following files from the wan boot server to the client. The fast reboot feature of oracle solaris 11 is supported on both sparc and x86 platforms. Here is a straight forward method for managing a dhcp server that functions similar to bootp, with it only handing out address to your auto install clients.
In order to setup an automatic install server, i first needed a running solaris 11 system. In part 3, i will cover how to build your own ips package, create a second local ips repository for your own packages, publish the package to your. I still need to add how to setup the dhcp server for x86 boot process and also figure out how to do an unattended installation while offline without access to pkg. The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. In addition, clients which do not support wan boot installations from the obp may be booting from a cdrom, from where they will acquire the. Sep 24, 2012 in official oracle documentation, you require a dhcp in order to configure ai server for your environment. This book describes how to install the solaris operating system solaris os remotely over a local area network or a wide area network. The automated installer is used to automate the installation of oracle solaris 11 on x86 and sparc architecture over the network. Dec 21, 20 the automated installer is used to automate the installation of oracle solaris 11 on x86 and sparc architecture over the network. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Oct 27, 2016 solaris using solaris 11 repository and automated installer to build and deploy unified archives. Installation of solaris 11 on sun fire t stack overflow.
Solaris 11 sparc wanboot notes this pages purpose is to be a guide for how to manually configure your own wanboot server by hand, rather than being forced to use oracles installadm createservice lockin. Security vulnerabilities in openssl affect solaris wan boot. I came across this in a post by steve scargall in the oracle forums, this post is a rehash of his solution. Solaris using solaris 11 repository and automated installer to build and deploy unified archives. Contribute to glynnfostersolaris11handsonlabs development by creating an. However with solaris 11, if you want to use autoinstaller, you will need to setup or configure dhcp to hand out addresses to your solaris hosts. Converting the milax live cd for sparc to a wanboot image. Solaris 10 wanboot installation or solaris 10 installation. Create an ai install service installing oracle solaris 11 systems. Oracle solaris 11 1111 text installer and command line oracle solaris 11 1111 automated install. From the download window right click and copy the download link and then cancel the download.
Overview in this section i will create a solaris repository and populate it with the release and the support repository update sru bits. At the beginning of livedvd boot, it probes for devices and is getting hung up on what i believe is. Here we will see how we can install solaris 11 with precustomized profile. The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system. Contacting the automated installation service to download over the network a small boot image. I recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a. Download the full repository image from oracle web.
Configuring static ip client for automatic installer solaris 11 the. The fast reboot feature implements an inkernel boot loader that loads the kernel into memory and then switches to that kernel, so that the reboot process occurs within seconds. Wanboot is significantly different from prior methods of jumpstart install for solaris, in many ways. Go to the appropriate oracle download and signin throihgh and get the url from the page and let firefox start the download. Use the installadm createservice command to create an ai install service. Im confused with the documentation about solaris network installation. If you just add the client in ai server without creating a profile will end in manual configuration the client after the installation. However ai is supported in solaris 11 and later versions. May 01, 2012 however with solaris 11, if you want to use autoinstaller, you will need to setup or configure dhcp to hand out addresses to your solaris hosts.
My ops center server has t the unix and linux forums. Where could i download the firmware for such hardware hmc machine type of. Give the service a meaningful name, and specify the path. The client boots and gets an ip address and the location of the wanboot cgi file from the dhcp server. The client boots and gets an ip address and the location of the wanbootcgi.
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