Setup Jumpstart with DHCP on an Solaris 11 machine (3/3): setup Sparc client

In this article Setup Jumpstart with DHCP on an Solaris 11 machine (1/3): setup Jumpstart server we setup a Jumpstart server with DHCP on an Solaris 11 (11.2) box. Now we are creating client data for a Sparc client. Mac address of this client is, say, 08:00:27:13:14:20,

1. put a file sysidcfg to a directory, I will use /work/jumpstart/config/sysidcfg/08:00:27:13:14:20/my-second-project in this example,

# mkdir -p /work/jumpstart/config/sysidcfg/08:00:27:13:14:20/my-second-project

then add a file /work/jumpstart/config/sysidcfg/08:00:27:13:14:20/my-second-project/sysidcfg

(you can refer to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E28037/preconsysid-55534.html for details of sysidcfg)

—– begin of sysidcfg —–

name_service=NONE

network_interface=PRIMARY {

      dhcp

        protocol_ipv6=no

}

system_locale=C

timezone=Asia/Taipei

root_password=yyPLbpUHu9bRc

security_policy=NONE

nfs4_domain=dynamic

timeserver=localhost

terminal=vt100

auto_reg=none

—– end of sysidcfg —–

some notes:
“timezone=<timezone name>” specify a timezone that can be modified to yours 

“timeserver=<ip address>” let the Sparc client to synchronize time from other server during Jumpstart installation is take place

“timeserver=localhost” keeps this client to use its own time.

root_password contains an encrypted password which can be obtained from /etc/shadow

2.  put these files “profile”, “rules”, “begin_script” (optional), “finish_script” (optional) to a directory, I will use /work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project in this example,

# mkdir -p /work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project

# cd /work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project

then add files profile, rules, begin_script, finish_script

   (profile you can refer to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E28039/preparecustom-24696.html for more profile configurations)

—– begin of profile —–

install_type    initial_install

cluster         SUNWCXall

locale          C

geo             C_America

geo             N_America

geo             S_America

geo             Ausi

geo             C_Europe

geo             E_Europe

geo             N_Europe

geo             S_Europe

geo             W_Europe

geo             N_Africa

geo             S_Africa

geo             Asia

geo             M_East

system_type     standalone

partitioning    explicit

pool rpool auto auto auto any

—– end of profile —–

—– begin of rules —–

any –   begin_script    profile finish_script

—– end of rules —–

—– begin of begin_script —–

#!/bin/sh

echo “begin_script is beginning at `date`”

(do what you want or empty here)

echo “begin_script is ending at `date`”

—– end of begin_script —–

—– begin of finish_script —–

#!/bin/sh

echo “finish_script is beginning at `date`”

(do what you want, such as changing sshd configuration to allow root ssh login, changing root’s shell, installing recommended patches,….. As root file system is mounted under /a during jumpstart installation, remember to write scripts to make any modification with files under /a. you can leave here empty if no customization is required.)

echo “finish_script is ending at `date`”

—– end of finish_script —–

3. go to profile directory /work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project and run /work/jumpstart/os-image/Install-sparc-10-u11_2013.01/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/check

# cd /work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project

# /work/jumpstart/os-image/Install-sparc-10-u11_2013.01/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/check

Validating rules…

Validating profile profile…

The custom JumpStart configuration is ok.

You will see a file rules.ok generated from rules.

Be noted: in Solaris 11.1 we need to change the first line of /work/jumpstart/os-image/Install-sparc-10-u11_2013.01/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/check from  #!/bin/sh to #!/usr/sunos/bin/sh, but this step is not necessary in Solaris 11.2.

4. run add_install_client to add client information, (the last argument is sun4u or sun4v, based on your hardware type)

# /work/jumpstart/os-image/Install-sparc-10-u11_2013.01/Solaris_10/Tools/add_install_client \

-c 192.168.1.115:/work/jumpstart/config/profile/my-second-project \

-p 192.168.1.115:/work/jumpstart/config/sysidcfg/my-second-project/08:00:27:13:14:20 \

-d -e 08:00:27:13:14:20 sun4u

5. add the following lines to the end of /etc/inet/dhcpd4.conf based on above command output, replace 127.0.0.1 and my hostname vbox with real ip address, in this article, it’s 192.168.1.115. (make sure no duplication of this MAC address)

host 080027131420 {

    hardware ethernet 08:00:27:13:14:20;

    filename “01080027131420“;

}

then refresh DHCP service by

svcadm refresh dhcp/server:ipv4

6. boot up this Sparc client from ok prompt with

boot net:dhcp – install