Jumpstart Preparation; Overview Of Jumpstart Preparation; Prerequisites For Jumpstart Preparation - HP Dl180 - G6 E5504 2X2gb 4Lff Svr Deployment Manual

JumpStart preparation

This section describes some prerequisites for preparing JumpStart that are specific to ProLiant. For
more information about Solaris JumpStart, see Solaris 10 11/06 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart
and Advanced Installations at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6397.
This section also includes descriptions of a JumpStart configuration, requirements specific to ProLiant,
and a complete configuration example.

Overview of JumpStart preparation

JumpStart automates Solaris deployments by providing configuration information for which the Solaris
installer would ordinarily interactively prompt the user.
A basic JumpStart configuration consists of the following components:
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rules—The rules file provides instructions for selecting a JumpStart profile based on various
user-selectable criteria such as platform architecture, system model, and so on, as well as custom
criteria.
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Profile—A JumpStart profile file provides certain installation configuration information such as file
system layout, disk partitioning, and which packages are to be installed.
•
sysidcfg(4)—A sysidcfg file provides the system identification information such as root
password, networking parameters, time zone, and so on.
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Begin and finish scripts—These are optional scripts that run before and immediately after
installation and can be customized to perform pre- and post-installation configuration.
The rules file, profile file, and begin and finish scripts must be in the same directory, and are
typically made available to clients through NFS.

Prerequisites for JumpStart preparation

This section describes ProLiant-specific prerequisites for installing JumpStart.
Additional required packages
Some drivers that are not included on the Solaris media are usually required for proper use of Solaris
on ProLiant servers. These drivers include the Smart Array driver and the Broadcom NetXtreme II
network driver. For automated deployments, provisions must be made for these drivers to be installed
on the system during operating system installation. To make these provisions, perform either of the
following steps:
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Use the package profile keyword to install the additional packages through NFS. See
"Example: JumpStart preparation."
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Use a finish script to install the additional packages using pkgadd(1M). For a complete example,
see the Sun documentation.
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