• Index
• Introduction
• Jumpstart Server
• Installation
• Installation (2)
• Directory Layout
• Guidelines
• Boot Server
• sysidcfg
• Client Overview
• rules
• rules (2)
• Custom Profile
• Custom Scripts
• Adding a Client
• Adding a Client (2)
• Booting the Client
• Conclusion
• Additional Resources

A jumpstart client needs certain information available in order to perform a fully-unattended install. In Solaris 8, this can only be provided by a sysidcfg configuration file.

DNS and NIS+ cannot provide security_policy or protocol_ipv6 and LDAP is not supported. A sample sysidcfg file

	root_password=n9lBg0AWcfL3a
	timezone=US/Eastern
	timeserver=timehost
	terminal=vt100
	name_service=NIS {domain_name=cs.duke.edu 
		name_server=duke(152.3.140.1)}
	security_policy=NONE
	network_interface=PRIMARY {netmask=255.255.255.0 
		protocol_ipv6=yes}
	system_locale=C

• sysidcfg file is somewhat OS-dependent.

• The hashed root password is visible here, and it is on a filesystem exported with anon=0 (and no this is not our root password!). Note that the sysidcfg is left in /etc after the install.

• The protocol_ipv6 and security_policy keywords are new to Solaris 8 and will not work with previous OS installations.

• sysidcfg log file is located in /var/sadm/system/logs/sysidcfg.log

• For a complete listing of the syntax rules and keywords used in the sysidcfg file, see Table 4-2 in the Advanced Installation Guide.

• For more information on security_policy see http://www.sun.com/software/solutions/blueprints/0300/sysidcfg.pdf