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Sun Update Connection - Enterprise Bare Metal Installation Guide

Setting Up Your Environment

Before using the BMI server, make sure that the Solaris OS and Linux images that you need are set up for network installation and that the BMI server has HTTP, FTP, or NFS access to the image server. When your image server is ready, configure your BMI channels, as needed, to point the BMI server to the correct image on the image server.

This section contains information about configuring the following channels:

ProcedureTo Configure BMI Channels

This task explains how to point the BMI server to an image.

  1. Log into the BMI server.

  2. From the BMI server page menu, click Setup.

    The BMI Channels page is displayed, listing the channels you activated when you installed the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise.

  3. Check the status of each channel:

    • If the status is Configure, click Configure. A distribution-specific configure window opens. Complete the information needed to configure the selected channel for network installation.

    • If the status is Re-Configure, it is ready to use. Click Re-Configure if you need to change the path to the distribution CDs.

    • If the status is Channel Enabled, it is an S/390 channel and is ready to use. These channels are configured on the mainframe instead of the BMI server.

ProcedureTo Configure IA-32 Channels

This task explains how to configure IA-32 channels.

  1. From the BMI Channels page, choose an IA-32 channel and click Configure or Re-Configure.

  2. In the text box, enter the HTTP, FTP (or similar), or NFS path to the distribution CDs on the Image server.

    • Example HTTP format: http://system-name/path

    • Example FTP format: ftp://username:password@system-name/path/

    • Example NFS format: NFS: file:///path

  3. Click Continue.

    The change is saved and the BMI Channels page is displayed.

Before Provisioning With the IA-32 Channel

Before provisioning with the IA-32 channel, start up the systems and make sure they are set up for netboot, using their PXE cards.

ProcedureTo Configure AMD-64 Channels

To set up AMD–64 channels, you need paths to specific network boot files. This task explains how to obtain these files and configure channels based on AMD 64-bit architecture.

Before You Begin

You must obtain the network boot files, create a local mount point on the SDS, then loop mount the boot.img file on the mount point.

To obtain the network boot files, copy the boot.img file from the images subdirectory in the first installation CD to the SDS.

To create a local mount point on the SDS, type the following:


# mkdir /mnt/ia64boot

To loop mount the boot.img file on the mount point, type the following:


# mount -o loop /tmp/boot.img /mnt/ia64boot

  1. From the BMI Channels page, choose a AMD-64 channel and click Configure or Re-Configure.

  2. In the first text box, enter the HTTP, FTP (or similar), or NFS path to the distribution CDs on the image server.

  3. In the next text boxes, enter the path names mounted in the preparation procedure:

    • pxelinux – file:///mnt/ia64boot/elilo.efi

    • initrd file – file:///mnt/ia64boot/initrd.img

    • Kernel – file:///mnt/ia64boot/vmlinuz

  4. Click Continue.

    The change is saved and the BMI Channels page is displayed.

Before Provisioning With the AMD-64 Channel

Before provisioning with the AMD-64 channel, start up the systems and make sure they are set up for netboot.

If you do not have a preconfigured network boot option in the Boot Manager menu, add a boot option in the Boot Option Maintenance Menu.

ProcedureTo Configure IA-64 Channels

To set up Itanium type channels, you need paths to specific network boot files. This task explains how to obtain these files and configure channels based on 64-bit Intel architectures (Itanium).

Before You Begin

You must obtain the network boot files, create a local mount point on the SDS, then loop mount the boot.img file on the mount point.

To obtain the network boot files, copy the boot.img file from the images subdirectory in the first installation CD to the SDS.

To create a local mount point on the SDS, type the following:


# mkdir /mnt/ia64boot

To loop mount the boot.img file on the mount point, type the following:


# mount -o loop /tmp/boot.img /mnt/ia64boot

  1. From the BMI Channels page, choose a IA-64 channel and click Configure or Re-Configure.

  2. In the first text box, enter the HTTP, FTP (or similar), or NFS path to the distribution CDs on the image server.

  3. In the next text boxes, enter the path names mounted in the preparation procedure:

    • pxelinux – file:///mnt/ia64boot/elilo.efi

    • initrd file – file:///mnt/ia64boot/initrd.img

    • Kernel – file:///mnt/ia64boot/vmlinuz

  4. Click Continue.

    The change is saved and the BMI Channels page is displayed.

Before Provisioning With the IA-64 Channel

Before provisioning with the IA-64 channel, start up the systems and make sure they are set up for netboot.

If you do not have a preconfigured network boot option in the Boot Manager menu, add a boot option in the Boot Option Maintenance Menu. You can find additional details at http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/help/efidocs.htm.

ProcedureTo Configure Solaris Software Channels

This task explains how to configure channels based on Solaris UNIX® software on a SPARC® technology architecture.

Note –

After you activate your Solaris channels in Sun Update Connection – Enterprise, use the upload.html command to upload your Solaris software to the SDS. See Chapter 5, Local Inventory, in Sun Update Connection – Enterprise 1.0 User’s Guide.

  1. From the BMI Channels page, choose a Solaris channel and click Configure or Re-Configure.

  2. In the first text box, enter the NFS path to the distribution CDs on the image server.

  3. In the second text box, enter the HTTP, FTP (or similar), or local path to the Solaris kernels directory, which is typically under the directory you entered in the first text box.

    You can use the file://, http://, or ftp:// protocol to access the directory. The directory is typically /CD-install-directory/Tools/Boot/usr/platform-name.

  4. Click Continue.

    The change is saved and the BMI Channels page is displayed.

Before Provisioning With the Solaris Channel

Start up the systems and make sure they are set up for netboot.