[Infrastructures] Jumpstart on AFS?

[Stephen P. Schaefer]

Modern Sun proms support Jumpstart via DHCP, requiring only an (ISC or 
Sun) DHCP server on the local subnet.  The process requires DHCP 
features that I don't believe the Microsoft DHCP server has.

Getting AFS into the kernel that gets jumpstarted sounds challenging but 
feasible.  Be sure to write it up if you do it :-)

     - Stephen P. Schaefer

Craig Cook wrote:
> There was some discussion back in March about AFS and radmind.  From what I can see you need an OS installed before you can use Radmind.
> 
> One suggestion was to run radmind off an afs share for increased availability.
> 
> Can this idea be stretched to include Solaris Jumpstart?  One limitation with jumpstart is you need a boot server on the same subnet as the box you are trying to build.  If jumpstart itself was put on an AFS share you could effectively have a jumpstart server on each subnet that you needed... (or is that a bad idea)
> 
> Has anyone done something like this? 
> 
> eg. Jumpstart new solaris box
> Install radmind client
> radmind then installs cfengine client/afs client/patches/whatever for you...
> 
> Craig Cook
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