booting/installing Solaris over HTTP

[mcb30]

(2013-06-10 21:37)sab Wrote:  I am trying to find a solution which allows me to boot [and install] Solaris on x86 hardware without having to depend upon DHCP or NFS (for reasons too complicated to explain here).
Something which allows me to boot and install Solaris over HTTP.

Basically, I am looking for something for x86 which is equivalent to Wanboot on sparc (since Wanboot does not support x86 h/w).

Any ideas how I may be able to achieve this by using ipxe or anything similar?

Sounds like a perfect match for iPXE.

Are you trying to avoid having to configure DHCP options, or do you need to work without even using DHCP for IP address allocation? If the latter, how are you expecting to assign IP addresses? You can hardcode a static IP address into each iPXE instance if necessary, but that seems like a lot of work.

Michael