[indiana-discuss] cloning opensolaris/sparc installation?

[James Cornell]

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all thanks to all who've helped me get past the issues in
> installing opensolaris on sparc. I now have a working opensolaris
> installation which I want to clone to another sparc machine on the
> same network, currently running Solaris 10. I have sc access, but no
> physical access (i.e. can't put CDROM, etc.) to these machines since
> it's on a remote datacenter. Downtime is not an issue since these are
> development servers.
>
> Is there a way to do this, or is AI the only supported method?
> Generally I don't like the idea of having to download several hundred
> MB from pkg.opensolaris.org for every server installation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fajar
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Someone noted making a mirror of the ips repo, which isn't recommended
but is a possible option.  You have complete justification to do so
since you're talking about a dc.  You'll need to dig back in this
mailing list a month or two.

James