Re: SPARC bootable CDs??

On Oct 4, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Steve Wilson wrote:
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> All,
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> I've been trying to create a basic SPARC bootable CD using the
> information in Sun's "Building a Bootable Jumpstart Installation
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> open source equivalents that would be worth looking at??
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> Cheers,
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> Steve.

Hi Steve,
     Have you looked at the 2 article series, Bootable SolarisTM  
Installation CD, by Rytis Sileika, in SysAdmin magazine?  Although  
the articles mostly address modifying the the build, they demonstrate  
how to create the cd.

# /etc/init.d/volmgt start
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/s0
# find . -print | cpio -pudm /var/bootcd/s0

...

# mkisofs -R -D -d -L -l -sparc-boot \
   sol.8.s1,sol.8.s2,sol.8.s3,sol.8.s4,sol.8.s5 > -o solaris_8.iso ./s0


Below are the articles and the links.

Bootable SolarisTM Installation CD: Part I
Rytis Sileika
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9598/sam0504f/0504f.htm

Bootable SolarisTM Installation CD: Part II
Rytis Sileika
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505f/0505f.htm


Regards,
-Eric
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Eric Paul Forgette
Sr. Unix Systems Engineer
http://homepage.mac.com/e4jet/



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