RE: Question: True non-interactive network based install
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It is rumored that on 03-May-2000 Dennis Behrens wrote:
> Recently I've been considering working on creating a network based install
> for Debian, along the lines of HP's Ignite-UX or Sun's Jumpstart.
>
> With Sun's Jumpstart (review is at
> http://www.sysadminmag.com/current/feature.shtml), you can tell the sparc to
> boot net - install. The sun box then does a reverse arp request, gets it's
> ip address from the jumpstart server (on the same ethernet segment of
> course) then tftp's the bootimage. From there it partitions itself
> according to the settings on the jumpstart server, and installes all of the
> stuff that the jumpstart server tells it to install. (Granted this is
> pretty watered down, but you all get the point.)
Sun has modified the rpc.bootparams to support the extensions for this.
Extensions are not documented to the extent I have searched (not a lot ;-).
You will either have to reverse engineer them or invent an alternative proto or
implement an alternative proto on top of http for example.
[snip]
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Anton R. Ivanov
IP Engineer Level3 Communications
RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
@*** Beauregard's Law ***
When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.
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