Re: S7-2 Debian 12 ISO Installation via NFS

On 9/22/25 22:12, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
> Dennis,
> 
> Many ways to accomplish this goal, just showing what works on my end. In 
> any event, successfully installed Debian 12 sparc64 via NFS as well. So 
> USB and NFS based Debian12 sparc64 ISO installs all work on my end. Hope 
> the following step-by-step will help.
> 

I will give this a try tomorrow. I did try to use the SP to fetch the
Solaris 11.4 ISO image over NFS but that failed entirely. I suspect that
the SP wants NFSv4.1 and I generally just live with v3.

> 
> *NOTE:
> 
> This is a temp demonstration, I am not concerned about security for this 
> quick example.  You can re-enable the firewall or revert any changes on 
> your nfs server system, after the Debian 12 sparc64 installation is 
> finished.  Doing so to rule out any potential firewall related issues 
> between ILOM and NFS.
> 
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> Section A:  on NFS Server: In my case, this is manjaro x86-64
>

I have a massive FreeBSD server with a pile of ZFS based storage.
Loads of 16T and 20T seagate disks in mirrors etc etc.

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> 1) Ensure nfs-server related package is installed for your linux system.
> 

Yes .. I have all of that on FreeBSD natively.

If I can get to GRUB tomorrow that will be a very fine day indeed.