On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:04:52PM +0000, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Jason Kohles wrote: > > >Red Hat can be used as a jumpstart server, as long as you find the right > >version of Red Hat to work around a bug in the solaris installer kernel. > >I wasn't able to get it working with 9, but it does work with AS2.1... > > I was able to get it working with 9, but had to insert a one-line change > to the IP address setup section of Solaris' base scripts; the netmask > wasn't being set properly, so I forced it to 255.255.255.0. > > Was that similar to your issue? > That was one issue we had to deal with, the bigger issue is that there is a bug in most versions of the solaris installer kernel, if a fragmented packet arrives with the fragments out of order, the solaris installer will discard it. -- Jason Kohles A witty saying proves nothing. email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778) http://www.jasonkohles.com/
