[rescue] AX1105 (Netra X1-alike) booting from cdrom problems...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>Date: 2007/01/07 Sun AM 12:00:14 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] AX1105 (Netra X1-alike) booting from cdrom problems...

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>After buying a spare DVDROM drive and putting it in my PC running 
>Solaris 10, then running setup_install_server and add_install_client, 
>then net booting the system, everything *appears* to be installing 
>properly.
>
>And now, I can netboot-and-install any sun4u box I want, which is a 
>nice bonus.

It's a great way to put an older machine to use (in my case an Ultra 10, but PC is good too), and with a low-cost 100+ Gig IDE HD you can store lots of OS versions and other software ;^)

Lionel