(original message at end)
Many thanks to the folks who responded - most people pointed to setting
up a 'timezone' NIS or NIS+ map (see Solaris 2's timezone(4) manpage) but
I'm not running NIS+ here, and our NIS setup only serves netgroups, so this
wasn't really practical.
Matthew Stier <matthew.stier@imonics.com> forwarded me some mail from
John DiMarco which led me on a correct path to the solution - hacking on
${root}/export/exec/kvm/sparc.Solaris_2.5/sbin/sysconfig.
(I've put John's original message later in this mail.)
Thanks to all who responded:
rauthenberg@HHI.DE
Iain.Lockyer@camtech.com.au
Stuart.Little@ssu.stcssl.co.uk
casper@holland.Sun.COM
alan@macs.biu.ac.il
T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk
funk.lothar@ch.swissbank.com
apaton@wtl1.demon.co.uk
matthew.stier@imonics.com
blabes@datalytics.com
jmmosley@uncc.edu
anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
simdro@sisca.qc.ca
mike@trdlnk.com
jgotobed@LPL.Arizona.EDU
gustavo@cpqd.br
williams@aitsun501.tcinc.com
catey@wren.geg.mot.com
chaos@best.com
aub@ide.com
>From: John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu>
>To: casper@fwi.uva.nl
>Subject: auto-install
>Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 11:20:24 -0400
For your information:
I noticed the discussion about auto-install and automating the timezone/netmask
query on comp.unix.solaris. I don't run NIS, so can't completely satisfy
the auto-install process unless I modify the CD-rom image (copied to disk,
of course). Here's the (extremely minor) change I made to
solaris_2_3/export/exec/kvm/sparc.sun4c.Solaris_2.3/sbin/sysconfig
(a similar change needs to be made for each kernel architecture supported)
============================================================================
*** /tmp/T0a003oP Thu May 12 11:16:55 1994
--- sysconfig Wed May 11 20:11:23 1994
***************
*** 45,50 ****
--- 45,55 ----
echo " rpcbind\c"
/usr/sbin/rpcbind > /dev/console 2>&1
+ if [ -x /tmp/install_config/localconfig ]; then
+ echo " localconfig\c"
+ /tmp/install_config/localconfig > /dev/console 2>&1
+ fi
+
# Configure NIS or NIS+
echo " sysidnis\c"
/usr/sbin/sysidnis > /dev/console 2>&1
============================================================================
localconfig looks like this:
============================================================================
#!/bin/sh
# localconfig
# set up netmasks, timezone, and fix up .sysIDtool.state
STATE=/tmp/root/etc/.sysIDtool.state
echo 128.100.0.0 255.255.255.0 >/tmp/root/etc/inet/netmasks
echo 'TZ=Canada/Eastern' >/tmp/root/etc/default/init
ed $STATE >/dev/null <<end_of_edit
/Network has subnets/s/0/1/
/System previously configured/s/0/1
w
q
end_of_edit
============================================================================
All pretty simple and straightforward.
Regards,
John
-- John DiMarco jdd@cdf.toronto.edu Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager jdd@cdf.utoronto.ca University of Toronto EA201B,(416)978-1928I wrote: > OK, I _almost_ have jumpstart doing what I want now - the one thing > that it doesnt seem to do is set the timezone. When I do a 'boot net - > install' on the client, it trundles along, fires up openwindows, then > prompts me for the timezone, before continuing with the installation. > This happens before my pre-install script is run. How can I make the > timezone be set automatically, so that I can just boot them and walk > away? > > (I thought of just changing the TIMEZONE file in the root filesystem that > they NFS mount, but this is just a symlink into /tmp/root/) > > Solaris 2.5, if it matters.
-- anthony baxter @ /\/\|| / australian artificial intelligence institute, \ email: anthony@aaii.oz.au ||===============================================|| phone: +613 9663 7922 \ level 6, 171 latrobe st, melbourne aust. 3000 /
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