[SunHELP] ss 5 network install

[James]

There have been rumors of jumpstarting solaris from a bsd system, but they 
are just rumors, I have not heard of anyone actually completing the task 
without a cdrom.

On Wednesday 24 October 2001 11:03 pm, you wrote:
> James wrote:
> > 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.
>
> yeah i want to install solaris tho... i am pretty used to debian and
> open / netbsd and could probably install those pretty easily with boot
> floppies / network install; however i haven't used solaris much so i
> plan to torture myself by trying to learn about it.
>
> so my question was mainly specific to installing solaris 8 over the
> network from a machine that's not running solaris (probably x86 debian
> or freebsd).
>
> w