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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Planning to Install Over the Network
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Preconfiguring System Configuration Information (Tasks)
3. Preconfiguring With a Naming Service or DHCP
Part II Installing Over a Local Area Network
4. Installing From the Network (Overview)
5. Installing From the Network With DVD Media (Tasks)
6. Installing From the Network With CD Media (Tasks)
7. Patching the Miniroot Image (Tasks)
8. Installing Over the Network (Examples)
9. Installing From the Network (Command Reference)
Part III Installing Over a Wide Area Network
11. Preparing to Install With WAN Boot (Planning)
12. Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)
13. SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)
14. SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Examples)
Problems With Booting a System
Error Messages When Booting From Media
General Problems When Booting From Media
Booting From the Network, Error Messages
General Problems When Booting From the Network
Initial Installation of the Oracle Solaris OS
x86: How to Check an IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS
General Problems When Upgrading
How to Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVM
How to Upgrade When Running Veritas VxVM
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
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 run 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, add the address to the list the in the /etc/ethers file.
On the client, run add_install_client again as in this example.
# ./add_install_client bluegill sun4u