{"id":281,"date":"2018-03-23T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:07:23","slug":"solaris-automatic-install-without-ai-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/tutorial\/solaris-automatic-install-without-ai-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Solaris Automatic Install without AI environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To install Solaris automatically there is a less documented way besides an AI (Automated Installer) environment and\/or the Distribution Constructor. You can install Solaris on bare metal just by specifying an installation manifest and system configuration profile. For SPARC this is even possible without a DHCP server but x86 does require one.<\/p>\n<p>The steps for x86 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mount x86 AI ISO and boot from it<\/li>\n<li>Select and edit the second option (the one without custom)<\/li>\n<li>Change the line <code>$multiboot $kern $kern -B install=true<\/code> to append the manifest and system configuration profile:\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\" title=\"X86 - Start automated install\">$multiboot $kern $kern -B install=true,aimanifest=http:\/\/server\/manifest.xml,profile=http:\/\/server\/sc_profile.xml\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Then press F10 to boot and start the installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The steps you need to do on SPARC are:<br \/>\n<strong>Note<\/strong>: I did not test the SPARC version yet but based on the above and modifying the guidelines used for booting from the network with specifying the manifest and system configuration profile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mount SPARC AI ISO using Redirection through the ILOM<\/li>\n<li>Optionally you can set the network configuration before starting the installation:\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\" title=\"OBP - Set network configuration\">ok setenv network-boot-arguments host-ip=client-ip,router-ip=router-ip,subnet-mask=subnet-mask\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>The installation can be started with:\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\" title=\"SPARC - Start automated install\">ok boot rcdrom - install aimanifest=http:\/\/server\/manifest.xml profile=http:\/\/server\/sc_profile.xml\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To install Solaris automatically there is a less documented way besides an AI (Automated Installer) environment and\/or the Distribution Constructor. You can install Solaris on bare metal just by specifying an installation manifest and system configuration profile. For SPARC this is even possible without a DHCP server but x86 does require one. The steps for &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/tutorial\/solaris-automatic-install-without-ai-environment\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lambiek.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}