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Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:56:31 GMT

I've spent the afternoon researching this, and have found a way to separate /var. First of all, there is no tool for doing this. It states pretty clearly in

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

John Taylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:18:07 GMT

... That's probably a very reasonable thing to do. not sure will work, but I think it might. I haven't done any conversions from ufs to zfs.

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:36:12 GMT

At the risk of being a little off topic here, could lucreate be used to create a separate /var when converting my UFS based Solaris 10 U8 to ZFS?

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

Michael Ramchand — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:46 GMT

... Yes. When using zfs based flars, the structure is exactly as the flar. ... yes. ... Mike Ramchand Principal Field Technologist Enterprise Technical

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

John Taylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:58:46 GMT

I don't think you would be able to create a separate zfs /var file system if you are using flash. Flash with zfs root is just a "send" of the zpool so if you

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:25 GMT

I decided to start over and take a different path to get to the same result 1. I installed my T1000 with Solaris 10 U7 via jumpstart on c0t0d0 2. I

Re: How can I tell if JEt is using what media location

Bruce Porter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:13:45 GMT

... reboot :-) Ok, less drastic umount /export/media/ lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1 ... -- Bruce D Porter Technical Consultant YTC

Re: How can I tell if JEt is using what media location

Wag Par — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:58:44 GMT

as you can see I have the line with the proper directory for the iso image. # vi /opt/SUNWjet/etc/solaris_iso_locations

Re: Bug in update_template?

Bruce Porter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:34:51 GMT

... Well, it worked for me, but I know you never trust me :-) ... -- Bruce D Porter Technical Consultant YTC Systems LTD "The internet is a huge and diverse

Re: Bug in update_template? [2 Attachments]

Michael Ramchand — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:25 GMT

Can anyone confirm that this worked? I'm doing some JET updates. Nice to know if this fixed it. Mike ... Mike Ramchand Principal Field Technologist Enterprise

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

Bruce — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:54:55 GMT

... Yes, I got that from the previous reply, you do not need to make the same reply to multiple people everyone in the group gets each posting. What I am now

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:40:32 GMT

My original flar was created on a T1000, which is a sun4v machine. The orignal flar was Solaris 10 u7. I then migrated this to Solaris 10 u8 and ZFS root,

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

Bruce Porter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:47:16 GMT

... I'd be inclined to agree that was where the process failed, beofre running LiveUpgrade, did you make sure the packages (LU) had been updated to the S10U8

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:33:19 GMT

The first T1000 was installed via Jumpstart using a flar of Solaris 10 U7. I then used Live Upgrade to upgrade this system to Solaris 10 U8 and ZFS boot. I'm

Re: Jumpstart Fails on Install of ZFS Flar

chanrahan68 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:07 GMT

Since posting this, I came across this information: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7015/samekernel?a=view Once I set PLATFORM_GROUP=sun4v, the flar was