Contacting the automated installation service to download over the network a small boot image. 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. Oracle solaris automated installer technetworkserverstoragesolaris11downloadsindex. If you not have it then you can download one for free after registration from this address. Specifies the url of the wanboot cgi program on the web server. Sep 24, 2012 in official oracle documentation, you require a dhcp in order to configure ai server for your environment. This setup will give complete handsoff process of installing and configuring the system. Security vulnerabilities in openssl affect solaris wan boot.
Oct 27, 2016 solaris using solaris 11 repository and automated installer to build and deploy unified archives. Installing clients installing oracle solaris 11 systems oracle docs. Insert the solaris dvd in the sparc system s drive. Hello, i have problems with automated installer on solaris 11. How to create a local solaris 11 package repository, installing and. Configuring static ip client for automatic installer solaris 11. 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. An install server can have more than one install service. However ai is supported in solaris 11 and later versions. Installation of solaris 11 on sun fire t stack overflow. Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on wget. Jul 11, 2009 i used your procedure on an old x1, kinda.
I recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a. Download solaris 11 text base installation image for x86 or sparc, whatever platform you. 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. Create an ai install service installing oracle solaris 11. The client boots and gets ip address and the bootfile, wanboot cgi, from the dhcp server. How to install this oracle solaris 11 support certificate. Contribute to glynnfostersolaris11handsonlabs development by creating an. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. Wanboot is significantly different from prior methods of jumpstart install for solaris, in many ways. Today our topic is how to create an ai server and is the second part of this threepart series. Where could i download the firmware for such hardware hmc machine type of.
Use the installadm createservice command to create an ai install service. Oracle solaris 11 information library, transitioning your oracle solaris 10 system to oracle solaris 11. Go to the appropriate oracle download and signin throihgh and get the url from the page and let firefox start the download. Here we will see how we can install solaris 11 with precustomized profile. Get started download packages packages see full software list. If you just add the client in ai server without creating a profile will end in manual configuration the client after the installation. The wanboot cgi program creates the data streams that transmit the following files from the wan boot server to the client. Brad hudson studies on unix, linux, virtualization, and.
Extract the zipfiles into some suitable location like vartmpsru. 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. This is the last of my threepart miniseries on ips, the image packaging system, for oracle solaris 11. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Now that we have the base release of solaris 11 in our repo, apply it the latest updates. Converting the milax live cd for sparc to a wanboot image. From the download window right click and copy the download link and then cancel the download. Setting up solaris provisioning documentation for truesight server. Following the steps below will allow you to use static ip. 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.
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. It is not on oracles hcl but it is on supermicros solaris 11. 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. My ops center server has t the unix and linux forums. Installing clients installing oracle solaris 11 systems. This book describes how to install the solaris operating system solaris os remotely over a local area network or a wide area network. Im confused with the documentation about solaris network installation. 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. The wanboot cgi program reads nf and sends the location of the wan boot binary to the client.
This entry was posted in password, solaris 11 and tagged lost, password, recover, reset, root, solaris11, sparc, x86. The fast reboot feature of oracle solaris 11 is supported on both sparc and x86 platforms. How to configure automated installer on solaris 11. I came across this in a post by steve scargall in the oracle forums, this post is a rehash of his solution. It is a primer for the information covered below, so you should read it to assist with the information that follows. Solaris 11 sparc wanboot notes boot network zivo nix blog.
Oracles docs claim you need a dhcp server, and to run mdns, to install over the network. Solaris using solaris 11 repository and automated installer to build and deploy unified archives. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. When you use the networkbootarguments variable, the sparc client does not have dns configuration information. In official oracle documentation, you require a dhcp in order to configure ai server for your environment. 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. The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. The client boots and gets an ip address and the location of the wanbootcgi. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatch solaris 10 wanboot minirootimage 20070710t16. 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. Steps to create a network boot install server for sparc server on solaris 11. The wanboot cgi program is installed on the system when you install the current solaris.
At the moment, im using a solaris 11 x86 machine to bootstrap putting the install files in the right place, but i. Instead of removing root from etcftpdftpusers and modifying the etcnf file on both local and remote machines. Ensure that the ai manifest that is used with the client specifies an ip address instead of a host. Find knowledge base articles by searching for keywords in the title e. The topic of how to publish your own ips packages builds upon the structure and information contained in part 1 and part 2. Copy the wanbootcgi program to the wan boot server oracle. This guide provides instructions for installing the oracle solaris 11 operating system. Installing oracle solaris by using ai transitioning from. Solaris 10 wanboot installation or solaris 10 installation. 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 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. The automated installer is used to automate the installation of oracle solaris 11 on x86 and sparc architecture over the network. This section shows you exactly how to boot a sparc or x86 client.
Sparc client installations opensolaris automated installer. Download the full repository image from oracle web. However due to various issues with solaris 10 releases, patching of the miniroot. Overview as typically is the case for me, this set of blogs is the result of several customers asking a similar question. Download solaris 10 1009 operating system dvd full for solaris 10 os, sparc, multilanguage. Ai is replacement for jumpstart server which was exists in the previous version of solaris. Command to check firmware version of hp x86 server on which solaris installed. Can i setup both on a single machine sparc or x86 or do i need a separate sparc and x86 mach. We already have an oracle vm cluster with of spare resources. The client boots and gets an ip address and the location of the wanboot cgi file from the dhcp server. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. Download iso image for sparc unattended installations.
The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system. A resilver kicked off automatically and after that all was well. Wan boot is a new method for installing a machine running the solaris operating system from a solaris jumpstart server over the network. I tried provision solaris 11 on my t51b server from ops center, but ai set wrong ip address for manifest smf. 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. 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. 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. Create an ai install service installing oracle solaris. 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. Create an ai install service installing oracle solaris 11 systems.
I need to setup a solaris wanboot and a solaris jumpstart server for both sparc and x86 architectures. 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. If you are not using dhcp, use this command ok setenv networkbootarguments hostipclientip, routeriprouterip,subnetmasksubnetmask,hostnamehostname, file wanboot cgi file. 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 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. Configuring static ip client for automatic installer. Oracle solaris 11 11 11 text installer and command line oracle solaris 11 11 11 automated install. So the easiest way for me to get access to a solaris 11 system was to download a template. 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. Dec 23, 20 here we will see how we can install solaris 11 with precustomized profile.
The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. As per my observations, not from any official spec. At the beginning of livedvd boot, it probes for devices and is getting hung up on what i believe is. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. 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 file is included in the optional components zip package, which you download from the. For wan boot installation path to the cgibin directory on the install. 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.
Using wan boot from a hard disk on a system running solaris 9. How to setup a soalris 11 package repository elis blog. Give the service a meaningful name, and specify the path. 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. After download this image you can burn it to dvd disk or direct mount in solaris as lofi device. Oracle solaris 11 1111 text installer and command line oracle solaris 11 1111 automated install. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11.