[Sunhelp] boot from net

[Paul Khoury]

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Marko (IMS) <smarko at ims.telstra.com.au>
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:25 AM
Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] boot from net




In my experience, if you run setup_install_server and then run
add_install_client both from the CDROM it won't work, perhaps because
sharing overwrites some entries in the dfstab file.
Try running add_install_client from the directory you used to install the
"install server" to (/data1/install in your case).
So you would type;
# cd /cdrom/s0/Solaris_2.6/Tools
# ./setup_install_server /data1/install
<<copy files - wait X hours>>
# cd /data1/install/Solaris_2.6/Tools
# ./add_install_client etc. etc. etc.

Don't forget that you need to add the ethernet address for
the install machine in /etc/ethers

It goes in the format of 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee     machine
you also need to add the hostname/IP in /etc/hosts

And if it still doesn't seem to work, try kill -HUP on rarpd,
rpc.bootparamd, nfsd, and/or mountd.

Paul (Who just installed Sol2.3 by network on a 12MB machine)