SUMMARY: V440 FlashArchive jumpstarting E250

All,

Than you to those who replied personally (Jeff D, Linh T, Chad J).

This turned out to be an NFS issue ... a collegue had changed the entry for 
the jumpstart NFS shared directory. This was flagged by a long forgotten 
command, found in my notes for custom solaris CDs, that may be familiar to 
you regular jumpstart users out there, /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall. It 
flagged another error as well, that I cannot recall and suggested a reboot 
of the jumpstart server min order to rectify the issue.

PLEASE _RTM_ FIRST (TWICE) AND HEED THE WARNING THOUGH BEFORE USING IT:
WARNINGS
     If the -d or -D option is not specified, pfinstall may  per-
     form  an  actual  installation  on  the  system by using the
     specified profile,  and  the  data  on  the  system  may  be
     overwritten.

>From what I understand from Sun 3rd Level support, when jumpstart hangs at 
the point where it did, then it is invariably a netwrok issue. My E250 is 
now a clone of the V440 - very happy with the results and the hours of work 
the flash archive mechanism has saved me.

Regards,

Mike
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T: Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD Admin
E: mwangu@hotmail.com
W: We are each a product of our own (in)decisions

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wangu [mailto:mwangu@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:51 AM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: V440 FlashArchive jumpstarting E250



All,

I have just flarcreate'd one of my V440s (Solaris 8 - 7/03) and would like
to use this image to jumpstart an E250 to create a DR machine.
It would seem feasible ... they are both sun4u, but it is failing after
outputting: 'whoami: no domain name' and before the 'Configuring /dev and
/devices' line. I get no errors, the E250 just seems to hang at this point
and will not break, either.

V440 - 4 x internal 36GB drives and 1 x 3310 attached
E250 - 1 x internal 9GB drive and 1 x A1000 attached

Thank you,

Mike

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