13 Jan
2016
13 Jan
'16
4:18 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
Solution- netboot.
The CDs [there are a zillion point release layer things] are in EFS
format and can't be mounted on OS X or Windows. At some point I mounted
them all on Linux and wrote a script that copied the /dist folders to a
folder structure on an NFS share I use to do a net install.
The net-based install was rather fussy about the shell on the installation
server. To work around it, I wrote a Linux pre-load shim that caught all
invocations and directed them to the compatible shell binary.
If this is of interest to anyone, I can probably unearth the code from a
backup tape (my SGIs - and the installation server - have been gone for
years).
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