Thanks to myself I tried creating another flar this time while running in single user mode. The first was created at a quiet run level 3. I boot the machine off the Solaris 9 boot server, select Flash, specify the file over NFS, and it is installing right now. On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:23:57AM -0400, Jeff D. Allen wrote: > Background: > Ultra 5 running Solaris 8 > Solaris 8 flash archive > Solaris 9 boot server > > I created a flar from the client Ultra 5, uploaded it to our server. I > installed a Soalris 9 boot server on the same machine, which runs Solaris 7. I > can boot the client from the Solaris 9 install server and select flash as an > installation method. I choose NFS as the retriveal type and specify the path > to the flar file and it finds it. However when it starts to install it says it > can not extract the Flash archive. > > When I tried using the flar with a JumpStart server, it gave a more detailed > error mesage saying it could not write to the flar file. > > Any thoughts? Does the fact that the flar is of a Soalris 8 system matter? > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff D. Allen, BCSc --------------------------------------------- > Systems Administrator Faculty of Computer Science > Dalhousie University 6050 University Ave. Halifax NS > Email: allen_at_cs.dal.ca Web: http://www.cs.dal.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff D. Allen, BCSc --------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University 6050 University Ave. Halifax NS Email: allen_at_cs.dal.ca Web: http://www.cs.dal.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Nov 29 08:57:15 2002
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