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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

How to Prepare for Adding Diskless Clients

Make sure that the system intended to be the OS service is running a supported release. Also verify that the combination of OS server release and diskless client release is supported.

When you use the smosservice add command to add OS services, you must specify the platform, mediapath, and cluster (or software group) of each diskless client platform that you want to support.

  1. Verify that the intended OS server and diskless client will be running a combination of Solaris releases that are supported.

    For more information, see OS Server and Diskless Client Support Information.

  2. Identify the diskless client platform by using this format:

    instruction_set.machine_class.Solaris_version

    For example:

    sparc.sun4u.Solaris_9

    The following are the possible platform options:

    instruction_set

    machine_class

    Solaris_version

    sparc 

    sun4d*, sun4c*, sun4m, sun4u, 

    Solaris_9, Solaris_8, Solaris_2.7, Solaris_2.6 

    i386 

    i86pc 

    Solaris_9, Solaris_8, Solaris_2.7, Solaris_2.6 

    * The sun4c architecture is not supported in the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 releases. The sun4d architecture is not supported in the Solaris 9 release.

  3. Identify the media path, which is the full path to the disk image that contains the operating system that you want to install for the diskless client.

    The Solaris 9 operating environment is delivered on multiple CDs. However, you cannot use the smosservice command to load OS services from a multiple CD distribution. You must run the scripts that are found on the Solaris 9 software CDs (and optional Language CD) to do the following:

    • Create an install image on a server. For information on setting up an install server, refer to Solaris 9 Installation Guide.

    • Load the required OS services from the CD image using one of the following scripts:

      • CD 1 of 2 – /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/setup_install_server

      • CD 2 of 2 – /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/add_to_install_server

      • Language CD – /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/add_to_install_server

      For example, if you are using the setup_install_server script from the Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition CD on a locally connected CD-ROM device, the syntax looks something like this:


      # mkdir /export/install/sparc_9
# cd /cd_mount_point/Solaris_9/Tools
# ./setup_install_server /export/install/sparc_9

    • After the Solaris CD image is installed on the disk, specify the disk image path. For example:


      /net/export/install/sparc_9

  4. Identify the SUNWCXall cluster when you add OS services.

    You must use the same cluster for diskless clients that run the same operating environment on the same system (SPARC or IA).

    For example, consider the following diskless clients:

    • sparc.sun4m.Solaris_9

    • sparc.sun4u.Solaris_9

    To set up these diskless clients, you would need to specify the SUNWCXall cluster for each diskless client because the sun4u and sun4m systems require the SUNWCXall cluster. In addition, diskless clients that run the same operating environment (in this situation, Solaris_9) on the same system must use the same cluster.

    Note –

    If you are using a sun4u system, or if you are using a system with an accelerated 8-bit color memory frame buffer (cgsix), you must specify SUNWCXall as the cluster.