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EFI and SUN Disk Labels

albertw / June 18, 2010

Every now and again an install on a new machine fails for me and I have to google to remember how to change the label. So this time I’m writing it down! Docs.sun.com has some information on the differences between the two formats http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/disksconcepts-47761?l=en&a=view But suffice to say that you cant install Solaris on an […]

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Interactive Jumpstart – asking for time

albertw / December 2, 2008

I hit an interesting problem tonight with jumpstart. Or old timeserver has gone away and the jumpstart clients are now going into interactive installs asking for the user to set the time. We rely heavily on automated installs so this needed to be fixed. The solution was obvious I thought. I’ll just set up one