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Sun Update Connection - Enterprise Bare Metal Installation Guide

Network Requirements

The following section lists the network requirements necessary to perform the BMI process.

BMI Server

TCP/IP to all provisioned systems

Note –

Solaris systems to be provisioned mount to the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory. If provisioning a Solaris system, the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory must be NFS exported.

Provisioned Systems

  • TCP/IP to BMI server

  • Access to the image server:

    • For SPARC platform, use NFS

    • For other platforms, use HTTP, FTP (or similar), or NFS

  • Solaris machines to be provisioned must meet the following requirements:

    • Support net:dhcp boot options (OpenBootTM software, at least release 3.0)

    • NFS availability for the kernel directories (usually Solaris_n/Tools/Boot/usr/platform/) or be local

Image Server

  • Linux distribution CDs, set up for network installation

  • Solaris OS CDs, set up for network installation, and an NFS exported path to the software repository

Note –

If you provision a Solaris OS, the image server might encounter problems with looped mounts that are needed by the Solaris OS when using BMI. To workaround this issue, the image server must have kernel 2.6 on SUSE 9.2.