Hi, I'm planning to purchase Netra X1 from Ebay. Since X1's don't have CD-ROM I was wondering if it's possible to boot Netra X1 from external USB CD-ROM and install Solaris from scratch. I've never done solaris install over network/jumpstart so I don't feel like experimenting now to do it. I wan't to buy 1RU server for network monitoring programs: netflow, mrtg, maybe snort for a small network installation. Is there another Sun server in that price class that would be better suited for purpose ? thanks, jmarkotic
Booting Netra X1 from external USB CD-ROM device
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Booting Netra X1 from external USB CD-ROM device
by jmarkotic » Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:17:30 GMT
Re: Booting Netra X1 from external USB CD-ROM device
by Dave A » Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:35:16 GMT
I and in There are a couple of possibilities here. First, newer Netra X1's do have a CD-ROM whereas old ones do not. Personally, I prefer they don't but t'is the way it is. I have tried, and it worked to take a garden variety IDE CD-ROM and plug it in to the alternate IDE. Set the jumpers to be a master. It worked as we were able to install Solaris 8 with it. Another alternative is to setup a boot/install server. I have used Solaris/Intel to install a Solaris/Sparc and visa-versa. This has the advantages of speed and scalability. If for example you want to install a new system with customized images it could be done in under 20 minutes per node with flash images. HD over 100BT is much faster than CD_ROMs plus you don't have to worry about being prompted for CD changes. Under explored nice touch in many environments. Read the man pages or the answerbook 2 on "setup_install_server" and "add_install_client". If using Solaris 8, be sure to add the Netra drivers to the install tree to support the dmfe ethernet as I don't believe this ethernet chipset is in the default install tree for Solaris 8. If you install with stock Solaris 8 CD-ROMs you will need to add the drivers after install for LOM and the dmfe drivers. On newer CD sets this is on the extra driver CD. ------------------------ Do not reply to email in headers of this message as it is bogus to foil spam bots. Remove the dashes and spaces in the address below. d--a-v e-@unix home-. net
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