When installing a cluster with nhinstall, you can
customize the Solaris installation using the nodeprof.conf
file. When the nodeprof.conf file is present in your
configuration directory, its contents supersede the default profile used by nhinstall.
The templates for the configuration files are contained in the /opt/SUNWcgha/config.standard directory with .template extensions. Copy the configuration files to a local directory
on the installation server as follows:
# mkdir config-file-directory
# export NHOME=/opt/SUNWcgha/config.standard
# cd config-file-directory
# cp $NHOME/nodeprof.conf.template nodeprof.conf
Note All the configuration files must be in the same local directory
on the installation server.For information on the format of the nodeprof.conf
file see Preparing Custom JumpStart Installations (Tasks)
in the Solaris Installation Guide. Do not define
disks and partitions in the nodeprof.conf file because nhinstall automatically adds these configuration details to the
file. This means that you must not define the boot_device, root_device, filesys or usedisk
commands because the configuration information for the disks is defined in
the cluster_definition.conf file.
The metacluster which is defined the first time you use the cluster command in the nodeprof.conf file is
used as the metacluster for diskless nodes and is given as an argument to
the smosservice command.
If you do not want to install the same Solaris distribution on diskless
nodes as you have installed on master-eligible nodes, create a diskless_nodeprof.conf file. For more information, see the diskless_nodeprof(4)
man page.
Note You cannot use nhinstall to install software
on dataless nodes.