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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations |
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Custom JumpStart (Overview)
3. Preparing Custom JumpStart Installations (Tasks)
4. Using Optional Custom JumpStart Features (Tasks)
5. Creating Custom Rule and Probe Keywords (Tasks)
6. Performing a Custom JumpStart Installation (Tasks)
7. Installing With Custom JumpStart (Examples)
8. Custom JumpStart (Reference)
9. Installing a ZFS Root Pool With JumpStart
Problems With Booting a System
Booting From Media, Error Messages
Booting From Media, General Problems
Booting From the Network, Error Messages
Booting From the Network, General Problems
Initial Installation of the Solaris OS
x86: To Check IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
To Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Solaris Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVm
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
To Install Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Solaris Operating System DVD
To Install From the Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image
Unknown client “host_name”
Cause: The host_name argument in the add_install_client command is not a host in the naming service.
Solution: Add the host host_name to the naming service and execute the add_install_client command again.
Error: <system name> does not exist in the NIS ethers map
Add it, and rerun the add_install_client command
Description: When you run the add_install_client command, the command fails with the above error.
Cause: The client you are adding to the install server does not exist in the server's /etc/ethers file.
Solution: Add the needed information to the /etc/ethers file on the install server and run the add_install_client command again.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Note - Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
On the client, find the ethers address.
# ifconfig -a grep ethers ether 8:0:20:b3:39:1d
On the install server, open the /etc/ethers file in an editor. Add the address to the list.
On the client, run add_install_client again as in this example.
# ./add_install_client bluegill sun4u