[SunHELP] FreeBSD boot server, for jumpstart install

Subject: [SunHELP] FreeBSD boot server, for jumpstart install

I had a lot of problems making this works, at first, I was using linux
and I realized it was not possible because of nfs incompatibilities with sun
 
So give a try to freebsd, and I succeed installing solaris8 on a sparc
station 10
 
The major problem I encountered :
 
I was getting this error :
Mar 19 04:30:06 blah bootparamd: getfile got question for "sun" and file
"rootopts" 
Mar 19 04:30:06 blah bootparamd: getfile failed for sun 
Mar 19 04:30:08 blah bootparamd: getfile got question for "sun" and file
"rootopts" 
Mar 19 04:30:08 blah bootparamd: getfile failed for sun 
 
... doing a tcpdump host sun during the bootup, I noticed there was write
failure on my
root export so I modified my /etc/exports to look like :
 
/mnt/2/Boot     -mapall=root sun
/cdrom  sun
 
then I modified my /etc/bootparams to look like :
sun domain=neotokyo.com \
rootopts=rsize=8192 \
root=192.168.0.2:/mnt/2/Boot \
install=192.168.0.2:/cdrom \
boottype=:in \
 
I changed rootopts from :rsize=8192  to rsize=8192 (removing the :), I dont
think it changed something
 
I think the key is to let the sparc mount its root filesystem with write
permissions
 
I hope this helps
 
Yannick Mercier

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:28:57 -0600
From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] FreeBSD boot server, for jumpstart install

Mercier, Yannick (CA - Montreal) wrote:
> I had a lot of problems making this works, at first, I was using linux
> and I realized it was not possible because of nfs incompatibilities with
sun

What incompatibilities?!?  I use Red Hat 7.2 servers with Solaris 8 
clients every day with no problems...  Yes, using NFS3, not NFS2.

Thomas

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Try to boot net - install on a sparc, using your linux
box as boot server, then, and only then, you will understand boy

good luck

Yan