[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:39:48PM +0400, Igor Kozhukhov wrote:
> 
> Do you have experiences with PXE boot from network?

Yes, in two different ways.  At work, I configured our DHCP server to
provide a boot block to Solaris 10 x86 machines.  With that, they
began a custom Jumpstart OS installation.  At home, I set up an AI
server and then did a network install of Opensolaris, back when it was
still open.

> I tried load onnv_134 by PXE on my HW machine because I had problems with
> IDE-CD/USB-CD drives.
> 
> For PXE boot you have to configure server, load miniroot by PXE and next you
> will be able to use your CD/DVD drive - local or external.

I've never done it that way.  Last time I tried a network boot of my
Acer laptop, it failed because of buggy ethernet firmware.  I'll try
it again.  Where did you get the miniroot?

> It is not easy and need more time for investigation problems/PXE beet
> configuration ...
> 
> I had about one week for setup environment.

Yes, it's tricky, especially when you only have a graphic console.

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-