I'm trying to use Kickstart to install Solaris 8 on a Sparc machine and boot it up across the network. And I need to upgrade (transfer) some system files, data files from Linux box to the new built Solaris box too. I'm wonderring if Kickstart can do all that? Thank you, HN -----Original Message----- From: Carl Riches [mailto:riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:24 PM To: Nguyen, Hang Cc: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: Kickstart partition question On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 12:49, Nguyen, Hang wrote: > Hi, > > I'm asking this question before and again. > > Can Kickstart be used to update (transfer) files, applications across OS > platforms? > > I have a Linux 7.3 machine as a server, and would like to boot up a Solaris > 8 machine (as a client) or to transfer files to that Solaris machine. > Can I use Kickstart to do the bootup and files transfer? > I don't understand what you are trying to do here. Kickstart is designed to install Red Hat Linux. File transfer between machines and OS platforms would be done via (secure) ftp, (secure) copy, tar, NFS, sneaker-net, etc. Updates of programs can be done many ways and use one or more of the file-transfer mechanisms listed above. And booting an OS from local disk, remote disk, or whatever will be described in the documentation for that OS. Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
