SUMMARY: making a customised bootable solaris cdrom
2007-12-24 19:37:00
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> I have an internal project on the horizons that may require
>the creation of a customised bootable cd-rom image. What I am looking
>at is deploying a whole load of squid proxies on a standardised intel
>platform and I want this to be a turnkey solution in that the person
>doing the build just plugs in a few simple answers and the machine
>build automatically. At it's simplest this could just be a dump image
>of a reference machine that is restored to a disk, installboot, tweak
>the /etc/hosts & others then reboot. These machines will not be in
>one place and will probably be at the end of a relatively slow link so
>I am thinking that jumpstart is not a good idea here. Has anyone
>crossed this bridge before? How did you solve this?
>
To which I got a few replies with some interesting suggestions but
nothing really concrete.
Brian Duffy pointed me at <http://www.linuxjournal.com/> which had an
article on creating bootable CD's which is handy if you don't know how
to create a bootable CD (I already knew how to do that ;-)
Someone suggested jumpstart but I don't think that is workable - my
original request stated that the machines would be built at the remote
sites with not much bandwidth back to the rest of the network so I
don't believe that jumpstart would be a good fit here.
Tim Chipman suggested using ghost (a Windows base application for
replicating hard disks) to drop a bit image onto a hard disk. This
does have merit if you already have ghost licenses (or are willing to
pay for them) and know how to drive ghost - neither of which I have.
So, it looks like it is time for me to roll up my sleeves and just
start hacking. A quick look at an earlier Solaris CDROM has given me
some confidence that this can be done without too much pain - I just
need to replace the start up install script and kill off enough
unnecessary files to be able to fit my machine ufsdump image onto the
CD. I may even write the procedure up for a magazine since there
seems to be some interest in how to do this.
Thanks to:
Brian Duffy
jstanley.smith at wamuloans.net
Ryan A. Krenzischek
Habib M.
Tim Chipman
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