Original Problem :
I've created 'sysidcfg' file with the entries as per Advanced Solaris
Installation Guide. This file resides in the jumpstart directory which
is NFS shared.
I still get asked all the installation questions - locale, timezone,
subnet, etc.
What's wrong here?
Solution :
As many of pointed out, for 'sysidcfg' to work with jumpstart, each
client host entry in /etc/bootparams needs to have the following
component:
sysid_config=<server>:<dir_where_sysidcfg_resides>
This can be done by:
1. Running add_install_client script with -p option to specify the
location of 'sysidcfg' file on the server.
or
2. Manually editing the /etc/bootparams file
None of these 2 options are available to me because our jumpstart
is used by a variety of people and we only give them access to
Solstice Host Manager. Host Manager has a nice gui front end but
it is unaware of 2.6 'sysidcfg' feature.
For 'sysidcfg' to work in my setup, I had to make some minor
changes to the installation script 'startup'. I by-passed the
reading of sysidcfg location from /etc/bootparams file and
'hard-coded' this information in this script. Everything now
work perfectly and I've a completely 'hands-off' installation.
If anyone is interested in these changes, I'll be glad to email
them.
Thanks to the following for their suggestions:
Steven Aizic <steven@yucc.yorku.ca>
kcolagio@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (Kevin Colagio)
Srinivasa Rao Duddupudi <sduddupu@cvimail.cv.com>
"Daniel J. Gregor Jr." <dj@gregor.com>
Gianluca Rotoni <gianluca@tell.ascom.ch>
Daphne Tregear <daf@cs.man.ac.uk>
Jeff Woolsey <woolsey@jlw.com>
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