When attempting to perform an installation of Oracle Solaris 11, you encounter a failure message along the lines of "no offers were received." What is the most likely reason for this message and why?

Question

Options

• AThe system could not obtain a DHCP-based lease so it could not proceed.
• BThe amount of disk space offered by the installer is inadequate so the installer attempted to
• CThe minimum amount of memory is not sufficient to load the necessary network driver so the
• DAn IP address provided is located on a different network segment because the correct RARP
• EThe IP address provided is outside the range of allocatable addresses.

• A
  74% (17)
• B
  13% (3)
• D
  4% (1)
• E
  9% (2)

Explanation

No DHCP or Proxy DHCP Offers Were Received If a DHCP server is not responding to an x86 client's request, you see the following messages: Intel(R) Boot Agent PXE Base Code (PXE-2.1 build 0.86) Copyright(C) 1997-2007, Intel CLIENT MAC ADDR 00 14 4F 29 04 12 GUID FF2000008 FFFF FFFF FFFF 7BDA264F1400 DHCP......... No DHCP or ProxyDHCP offers were received PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent The timeout message indicates that the client is sending a DHCP request and not getting a response. This issue is probably due to an error in the DHCP configuration. Check to see if your client is configured correctly in the DHCP server.

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