ignite-ux

[10ft]

I would like to know if there is a product similar to ignite-ux on sun solaris.

Thanks ;-)

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Jump Start??

[Paulo A G Fessel · Accepted solution]

You should have asked this on Sun forums. ;-)

About JumpStart. Hummm, almost.

JumpStart will not let you generate an image of a running server. That is, no "make_net_recovery" or "make_tape_recovery" facilities.

JumpStart is great for cloning a bunch of servers full of packages following Solaris package format, but it won't generate a "Golden Image" - packages will be ever installed individually, one by one. There's not the concept of one large tar file with /, /usr, /var, /opt and so on.

The solution? Well, just mount your old filesystems in /a/ and bring the restore back, AS LONG THE NEW HARDWARE IS IDENTICAL. Otherwise you'll have all sorts of trouble with /etc/path_to_inst, /devices and /dev.
A dd of /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 will also work well, provided that these conditions are met.

Just my 0.02,
Paulo Fessel