[SunHELP] Re: SparcStation 5

[Will Yardley]

Chris Barnes wrote:

> I've been looking into ways to install Solaris onto it by a net
> install but that seems like it might be a bit hard because by the
> sounds of the instructions I need another Solaris machine to be the
> server for the SparcStation to leech from...

that's my understanding; no one on the list has reported successfully
netbooting solaris off of any of the freenixes, and when i asked about
doing this before, i didn't receive a positive response.

what i did was to borrow a scsi cdrom and install from that.

> I was hoping I could just setup a web server on my Linux machine or
> something and point the SparcStation to that...Does anyone have any
> ideas, or know any easier ways to install Solaris on this diskless
> machine.

well if anything you'd need to install tftp and all the various other
network services that netbooting involves... a web server isn't going to
work for any machine (that i know of) to netboot.

> I have Solaris 8 for Sparc, but I'm not 100% sure it will work in the
> SparcStation 5 because the minimum memory requirements for Solaris 8
> is 64meg but my SparcStation only has 32. will Solaris still install?
> I wasn't planning on running a window system, just text console. Does
> anyone know which version of Solaris will install on my SparcStation
> 5?

it will run, but it will be slow.  you have to do a bit of trickery to
get the installer to run anyway as i recall.

i'd suggest buyiing more; i got extra memory for my ss5 for really
cheap.  and those machines are plenty slow with solaris 8... so it'll
need as much help as it can get.

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