Remote booting of Solaris

Checklist for installing Solaris 5.x

Pre installation detailsr

Mail Charles charles@umbc.edu for an ip address and an entry in the nameserver. Some requisite information is the name of the machine, the location of the machine and the type of machine. Eg 
Could you please assign an ip and an entry in the nameserve
for the following machine:
    Name:      wrath-of-khan.engr.umbc.edu
    Location:  ECS 115
    Type:      Cray T3D/2048 Node
    Comment:   Machine for running FractStudio

Thanks,

Vijay

Charles will get back to you with an ip number. Note this down.

Set up the machine, check the ethernet cabling. For ethernet cabling, the people to know are Charles and Dan (dan@umbc.edu).

If you are not using the 10BaseT port, the other ethernet port is the lower of two similar looking ports and is marked with <...>. The upper port is the parallel port and is marked with two || lines.

Boot up the machine and the ethernet address will be printed on the screen. Note this down. It will be used later in the boot/install process by the RARP/ARP protocols. The machine (if configured with JumpStart will try to boot up and will fail. Leave it be.

Bootserver setup

On the NISmaster server, do the following.
  1. Edit /etc/hosts and add the ip and name to it. # IP address-hostname database (see hosts(4) for more information). # This entry must be present or the system will not work. 127.0.0.1 localhost # Engineering Supercomputers 130.85.110.111 wrath-of-khan.engr.umbc.edu
  2. Edit /etc/ethers and add the ethernet address to it. # /etc/ethers maps Ethernet addresses to hostnames # # The library routine ether_line() uses this file. # # The format of a line is: # # x:x:x:x:x:x hostname # # where the first field is the 48-bit Ethernet address # expressed as 6 hexadecimal bytes. 1:2:34:56:78:90 wrath-of-khan.engr.umbc.edu
  3. Push the maps out. (on coe1: /usr/etc/yp/ypmake)
The user data, home directories were stored on argos:/home. This was backed up by /usr/etc/rdumb 0ubsdf 125 13000 54000 coe2:/dev/rmt/0mn /home The dump was verified and found to be without errors. /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsrestore ibf 126 /dev/rmt/0mn /etc/ethers was edited on coe1 with the ethernet address of argos, for rarpd. on argos: /etc/halt goes to the boot monitor boot net - install will boot from net ask for subnetworks: answer yes the netmask will be 255.255.255.0 Ask for country/timezone etc. America, Eastern (EDT) The system will prompt you for the root password. set the root password at this point. Set the partitions, initialize. swap : 150 megabytes / : 25 megabytes /var : 75 megabytes /usr gets the rest (722742 KB) (/tmp and swap are the same, be careful of this one). Filesystem will be initialized. This will take a lot of time on a gig disk. Now the system will auto install over the net. login as root. First thing, edit the /etc/resolv.conf. It won't exist, so edit and add the following lines: domain engr.umbc.edu nameserver 130.85.110.131 nameserver 130.85.110.100 This will set up the nameservers (coe2, coe2). After this is done, mkdir /etc/namedb and download localhost.rev and named.ca edit the /etc/resolv.conf to have the following entry. domain engr.umbc.edu nameserver 127.0.0.1 This sets up the caching nameserver. Now start it up again. /usr/sbin/in.named Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf so that the the passwd, group etc entries look like: passwd: compat group: files nis This was hosts: nis etc, change nis to dns hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] files The automounter entries should look like this: automount: files aliases: files nis Now add patches: mkdir /tmp/patches ftp to coe2 and download the patches. First install the 101331-03 patch (this fixes problems with the patch) ./installpatch /tmp/patch101331-03 is the command to install the patch. rm -rf /tmp/patches/101331-03 Then I wrote a script that ran through the patch directories and installed the patches. After the patches are installed, add sendmail (this is important to do, as patch modifies sendmail). Download the new sendmail and sendmail.conf files and install them. edit the /etc/group files and remove root from all groups that don't need it. Adm, daemon, mail etc. This is done so that the HP will let root access the NFS mounted disks. With root in groups, it will fail and HP's NFS seems only to accept at most about 8 root entries and we pick up a lot from NIS. Fix automounter maps: /etc/auto_master +auto_master /net -hosts -nosuid /users/engr auto_home /etc/auto_home # Home directory map for automounter # +auto_home grad3 plato:/users/engr/grad3 grad4 maxwell:/users/engr/grad4 grad5 rocky:/users/engr/grad5 This will make sure that the home directories will be mounted. --- Edit /etc/passwd and add +'s to the people who will be allowed to log in to the machines (+panos, +ansari etc). edit /etc/shadow and add + entries to the people (in the same order as in /etc/passwd). +panos +kuhn +wezhang +ansari +nicolaou etc. Test mail. Test DNS. Change /etc/services. Add the following line after the sunrpc 111 line. ident 113/tcp auth tap Then edit /etc/inet/inetd.conf and add the syslog/tcpd stuff. The inetd.conf stuff is standard. Look at entries in coe2. Now get the syslog.conf file (/etc/syslog.conf on coe2). This has the standard syslog stuff replaced with our custom loggers. The loghost is coe1.engr.umbc.edu (loghost.engr.umbc.edu). We are done. Reboot.