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Jumpstart installation from Solaris 10 zone

912276Apr 22 2012 — edited Jun 22 2012
Hi,

I am using a Sol 10 zone as a jumpstart server, and have encountered a problem.

Due to not being able to use the out-of-the-box nfs server, as it does not run in a local zone on Sol 10, I have looked at using a user-space nfs server, unfsd.

unfsd runs fine, and can be used by a client to nfs-mount a directory, but when it comes to using the client's flash archive to build the client, I get this error below in my snoop output:

10:54:46.04754 js-client -> js-server MOUNT3 C Mount /flash_archives/TEST/js-client.flar
10:54:46.04779 js-server -> js-client MOUNT3 R Mount Not a directory

Which implies to me that the jumpstart client is trying to nfs-mount a file, and unfsd does nto allow this.

Any advice/suggestions on how to resolve this would be appreciated.

Richard.

Edited by: Richard on Jun 22, 2012 8:51 AM

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abrante
It looks like a jumpstart configuration error to me, i.e the directory of the flar is specified as " /flash_archives/TEST/js-client.flar" rather than " /flash_archives/TEST/"

.7/M.
912276
Just to provide an update.

I switched to using ftp to get the flar file from the jumpstart server, which works fine.

I do believe that the issue with NFS is because the Solaris in-built NFS will allow a file to be NFS-mounted, but the user-space NFS daemon I used ( unfsd ) does not allow this, although I've not done sufficient snooping to prove this.

Richard.
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