Hi,
Can anyone explains me the difference between solaris flash archive and jumpstart installation. Both are used to install many systems frm a centralized location , correct me if am wrong,.
Clear view on this is really appreciable. Thanks in advance
these is like comparing apple and bees... it won't fit... a fasharchive is an "image" of a solaris installation. jumpstart is a system to boot, install and also (if you like to) configure a system over a network (or other medium but 99,9% are network based jumstart configurations; i belive...). you can install a flashimage with jumpstart... thats all.
Jumpstart can install in two different ways:
The install Solaris, install patches install packages method, configure host and domain specific settings.
Install a flash image of a host that has been installed and set up and then flarred into an image file and only needs the host and domain specific changes during the JumpStart finish script stage.
The latter is a lot quicker but not as versatile.
flash archives are good to clone the OS image to many systems at one go. installation just takes less than 15 mins.