The installadm
command is Oracle's new admin utility for
system installation related issues. It consolidates and replaces things such as the old setup_install_server
and add_install_client
scripts.
It is surprisingly easy to install the base requirements for a local network-based install server.
// if you dont have installadm already, first do "pkg install installadm" ARCH=i386 #or sparc installadm create-service -n $ARCH -a $ARCH // If you do not want it going under /export/auto_install/$ARCH, // use -d /export/whereyouwantit
With no other options given, this will download a special package named install-image/solaris-auto-install
. This is an imaged version of all of the packages in the group solaris-auto-install
, suitable for a network Boot Environment. Basically, this is the set of files on the AI image. When booted off it, almost anything that applies to booting from that physical media will also apply for this net booted image.
Note that...