[install-discuss] One flash image for both sun4u and sun4v hosts

[Craig S. Bell]

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/hybrid_build.jsp

  This brief tech tip was informed by a thread in this forum.  The apropos messages are towards the middle:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=30095

  I'm lazy, so I configured S10U3 with two platform groups.  Now we can manage a single flash archive for installing sun4u and sun4v systems.

  This seems to work, although supportability is another matter.  =-)  Our hope is that the Solaris installer might someday allow you to choose additional platform groups.

  There may be very good reasons not to have multiple groups present, but it is technically possible, as with the DVD miniroot.  Any thoughts?

  My thanks to the original posters who provided the technical know-how!

  -cheers, Craig S. Bell
 
 
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