[Sunhelp] boot from net

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury3 at loop.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] boot from net


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Marko (IMS) <smarko at ims.telstra.com.au>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:25 AM
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] boot from net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In my experience, if you run setup_install_server and then run
> add_install_client both from the CDROM it won't work, perhaps because
> sharing overwrites some entries in the dfstab file.
> Try running add_install_client from the directory you used to install the
> "install server" to (/data1/install in your case).
> So you would type;
> # cd /cdrom/s0/Solaris_2.6/Tools
> # ./setup_install_server /data1/install
> <<copy files - wait X hours>>
> # cd /data1/install/Solaris_2.6/Tools
> # ./add_install_client etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Don't forget that you need to add the ethernet address for
> the install machine in /etc/ethers
> 
> It goes in the format of 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee     machine
> you also need to add the hostname/IP in /etc/hosts
> 
> And if it still doesn't seem to work, try kill -HUP on rarpd,
> rpc.bootparamd, nfsd, and/or mountd.
> 
> Paul (Who just installed Sol2.3 by network on a 12MB machine)
> 
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