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Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 8: Preparing the first installation
Now you have to copy your Solaris install media. Obviously you need the Solaris files before you can install them to a system via network. You can do this on two ways.
From a mounted DVD media
When you already have burned media, you can use it for the copy process. Just put it into the drive, the volume managment mounts it and you can copy it from thre.
Let´s disect the command: -d specifies the target, where you copy the operating system. -n specifies a name for this media. From now on you refer this solaris media as nv87 in the templates for JET. At the end you specify the location, where the media is located at the moment.
From a .iso file
Okay, you´ve downloaded your Solaris media. You don´t have to burn it, you can use the \verb=.iso= files directly:
The command line for using a .iso file is quite similar. You just specify with the -i that an .iso file has to be used and in which directory it should search for it. The last parameter is the name of the .iso file itself. The system mounts the dvd image by using the loopback facility of Solaris and copies the media to it´s target location afterwards.
Looking up the existing Solaris versions
JET provides script to lookup the versions of Solaris you´ve copied to your Jumpstart Server. With the list_solaris_locations script you look up the version and the location of your solaris medias.