Hello Foreman users, >From my understanding, there is no support for Solaris 11 install on Foreman. Not sure if the reason is that Solaris 11 has its own automated installer or if there are technical challenges. At any rate, we have many users and would like to provide a single platform for OS install and were able to gently hack the /usr/share/foreman/app/models/operatingsystems/solaris.rb file with the changes as attached.
Installation media pointing to Solaris 11 AI: http://x.x.x.x:5555/export/auto_install/solaris$major_$minor-i386/ Boot filename: /var/lib/tftpboot/pxegrub2 Boot menu: /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/grub/grub.cfg (file attached) Foreman proxy: DHCP, TFTP services After creation of new host, Foreman was able to download the kernel and boot_archive from the AI server. At time of install, these steps were also successful: - get static IP from DHCP - display the grub.cfg boot menu - transfer kernel and boot_archive to new host Upon completion of transferring kernel and boot_archive, according to /var/log/messages, the new host once again request for the IP. dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 'static-ip' to 00:00:00:a0:63:75 via ens160 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 'static-ip' ('foreman proxy ip') from 00:00:00:a0:63:75 via ens160 (Scenario 1) Even though the Foreman DHCP proxy server has all the relevant information (ie, static IP, MAC) in /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases, this info does not get passed onto the new host the second time. Without obtaining an IP, the install failed. (Scenario 2) In another scenario, we have an external DHCP server (not Foreman proxy server), the new host gets its static IP the second time and the install succeeds. It's understandable that it would be difficult to reproduce these scenarios as many pieces are involved, but any help is greatly appreciated as I have run out of ideas. Thank you. Trisha -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
solaris.rb.docx
Description: MS-Word 2007 document
grub.cfg.docx
Description: MS-Word 2007 document
