Sunday March 06, 2005

Network installation made easy

If you have ever tried to install Solaris on an x86/x64 system over a network, you may have found that it is not trivial to get the system to initially boot. As an engineer who has written a number of the parts of the initial bootstrapping code, I have personally found the directions on docs.sun.com difficult to follow, especially for PXE booting and the necessary DHCP parameters.

Your savior is JET! A wonderful toolkit to easily setup jumpstart installation on all platforms.