[SunHELP] Installing solaris 8 from freebsd server

[Mike]

James, thanks alot for the information. As far as the RARP, BOOTP, and
TFTP setup goes that's all good to go. I just have to run the setup CD
across the network, and I "should" be set.

I'll check out docs.sun.com again to see if I can find more details on
this process.

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Mike

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, James Lockwood wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Mike wrote:
> 
> > I have downloaded the 3 files from sun's website for installing
> > solaris 8 (installation CD , 2 software CD's). These files are in ISO
> > 9660 format, which means I have to burn these to CD's. Is there anyway
> > I can convert these ISO's back to UFS format? Burning CD's is
> > possible, but I am having compatibility problems with 2000 and my HP
> > burner.
> 
> FreeBSD should be able to mount 9660 images directly.  Solaris can as
> well.
> 
> If you're using Solaris 8, man lofiadm.  This will let you make a loopback
> raw device association that can then be mounted in a normal way.
> 
> If you're using 7 or older, get the "fbk" (file simulates block driver)
> driver by Joerg Schilling of cdrecord fame:
> 
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/fbk/
> 
> > I assume once I get the CD rom mounted, I can share the CD rom and
> > boot the sun with "boot net --install" or something similar. I would
> > appreciate any steps and clarification given!
> 
> Go to docs.sun.com and look in the Advanced Installation Guide.  On a
> Solaris machine you would run Solaris_8/Tools/setup_install_server and
> add_install_client, since you'll be booting off of a non-Solaris box
> you'll have to examine these scripts and set things up appropriately.  In
> a nutshell, what you need to do is:
> 
> Export the CDROM filesystem, either directly or from a copy you've made.
> 
> Put the appropriate netboot loader in your TFTP server area and make a
> symlink to it from the IP address of the machine you'll boot in hex.
> 
> rarp for the Sun's MAC address with the appropriate IP.
> 
> Set up bootparams for the Sun (key fields are root, install, boottype and
> rootopts).
> 
> There are other ways to do things these days with OBP DHCP support, but
> this is the usual Sun netboot technique.
> 
> -James
> 
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