booting/installing Solaris over HTTP

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(2013-06-11 16:55)mcb30 Wrote:  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

Hello Michael,

thanks for the reply....
I am planning to skip the DHCP altogether. So basically, I am thinking if there's a way for me to reach an "initial prompt" with iPXE from where I am okay to assign the IP manually and point the client to a HTTP server using some iPXE commands so that it can start downloading the boot image and start loading the Solaris OS.

I am not sure if you are familiar with SUN's Wanboot solution but this is how I do it in the Sparc systems using OBP commands but Sun doesn't support that solution on x86 systems and I am trying to find some alternative for Wanboot on x86 hardware.

cheers !