Oracle Solaris Automated Installer

The Oracle Solaris Automated Installer uses two response files:

  • ai.xml: for the Automated Installer to specify partitioning, locales, source repository and packages to be installed
  • sc.xml: for System Configuration to specify host name, user passwords and specific configurations, services configurations, and network configurations.

Oracle documentation about creating ai.xml and sc.xml files can be found at:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E21798/

Since SA can handle only one response file per operating system and the Solaris Automated Installer requires two files for provisioning Solaris 11, SA provides a script, join_ai_sc.py, located in /opt/opsware/buildscripts/solaris/tools, on a Slice component bundle server, that can join ai.xml and sc.xml into a single file. The output file this script creates is then used as the response file for Oracle Solaris 11 provisioning.

Choosing Between Solaris 10 SPARC and Solaris 11 SPARC

Because Oracle Sun SPARC provisioning uses the bootp protocol, there is no clear way to choose between Solaris 10 SPARC and Solaris 11 SPARC provisioning. Therefore, you must use the /opt/opsware/boot/jumpstart/tools/switch_solaris_sparc_miniroot command to tell SA which version of Solaris to choose. This tool can be found on the core server on which the OS Provisioning component bundle is installed.