[OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrate from linux to openindiana

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Solaris has/had a very well documented system for systemdistribution. It was very easy to let other servers boot from 1 solaris "distro" server. Search for solaris jumpstart server. 

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 13 jan. 2013 om 05:27 heeft Nathan Kunkee <nkunkee42 at hotmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 
>> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:37:59 +0100
>> From: gigli at swipnet.se
>> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrate from linux to openindiana
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Seeking some help here. Tried a couple of days to migrate from linux to 
>> openindiana. Today i use ubuntu with zfs, i am very
>> impressed with zfs. OI with napp-it was a great experience. But i would
>> like to use my server for more tasks.
>> 
>> I would like it to serve as tftp server so i can pxeboot
>> my other clients with clonezilla. I would like mysql-server
>> for xbmc-database, use it as a dns-server with a local domain
> 
> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
> dnsmasq may meet your needs for two of those. It provides a local, forwarding DNS server, 
> and can be setup to answer TFTP/BOOTP/DHCP requests as well. I've had luck building
> it on OpenIndiana before. The source distribution has a SMF manifest in the contrib/Solaris10
> directory.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Nathan
> 
>> 
>> It is in many ways very different from linux which i have used
>> many years, and hard to set up, since it lacks documentation.
>> 
>> I did succeed with mysql and dns-server. I didn't with the
>> tftp-server. So i tried to install kvm to install a linux tftp
>> server. But during the kvm install OI frooze and pkg index
>> was ruined. Before i try again, maybee tomorrow, i wonder
>> if anyone has any good ideas.
>> 
>> The best solution would be to skip kvm, but i really need
>> a working tftp-server functioning to serve clonezilla.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Martin Waldenvik
>> 
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