[SunHELP] ss 5 network install

[James]

Hi

I have done multiple installs over the net, the easiest by far to install, 
specially if you have a highspeed internet connection, is Debian, check out 
depian sparc install instructions, it is pretty clear, you should be able to 
use tcpdump or simular too debug the boot process, if you have a high speed 
link, just set your main box too masquerade and ask debian to get the files 
it need from ftp or http. Basicly you need to download one file, a tftp boot 
file, and have the sparc to net boot, and the rest is menu choices.  and the 
install process down loads the rest. 

On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:55 pm, Will Yardley wrote:
> since i don't have a cdrom that works well right now, i'm going to try
> to do a network install on a ss5.  since i don't have access to the one
> or two solaris machines here, i was wondering if there is a good howto
> specific to do a network install off of a non-solaris machine.  most of
> the information i've seen has to do with installing off of another
> solaris machine.
>
> i can setup tftp / bootp / nfs on a freebsd or linux machine pretty
> easily; and i assume getting it to boot off the network won't be too
> hard, but what about partitioning the drives and stuff?
>
> any tips or common gotchas about this? i have the solaris 8 cd 1 and 2
> (read somewhere that the install disk isn't necessary; is that the
> case)?  it's going to be on a ss5 with a 110MhZ processor.
>
> w