[SunRescue] Diskless Workstations

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Thanks.

I'd seen that stuff on docs.sun.com, but I couldn't figure out just how 
much of it was necessary for a boot-only server.  I could find stuff on 
JumpStart and network installations, but nothing that covered the specific 
"diskless workstation's boot server" case.

I could just install Solaris from the CD-ROM (once I threw a disk at the 
LX) but I was thinking of making the LX a diskless workstation, and having 
it boot from the IPX and have its directories there, too.

Setting up an "install server" doesn't seem the right thing to do in this 
case.  But, I could be wrong.

So, I not only need information on setting up the bootp server, but on how 
to handle the directory mounting, NFS, etc.

All under Sol 7.

Now, it may be that this is just too much trouble to go to just to save a 
little noise and heat in the office, and I'd be bogging down the LX by 
making it use the little IPX as its file server.  If my idea's a crock, 
feel free to tell me so!

-Shel
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From: 	James Lockwood[SMTP:james at vaneyck.Gii.Getty.EDU]
Sent: 	Tuesday, May 18, 1999 8:56 AM
To: 	rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: 	Re: [SunRescue] Diskless Workstations
SunOS 4/Solaris 1 or SunOS 5/Solaris 2?

With Solaris 2.x it's very easy, look under the Advanced Installation
guide on docs.sun.com.  In the Tools subdirectory of the OS CD there is a
program to setup the install server (called, oddly enough,
setup_install_server) and a program to add a client netboot entry
(add_install_client).

For SunOS 4 it's a bit more involved but covered well in the manuals.

-James



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