In article <37959636.A34E8670@ftel.co.uk>,
Martin Sillence <M.Sillence@ftel.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a PC running Linux and was trying to do a boot net install.
>I patched the kernel so it now supports nfs V3 and the installation ends
>after nfs mounting the kernel and panics when it trys to run /sbin/init.
>
>Just to be sure it wasn't the nfs which was a problem I tied exporting
>from solaris also on the PC.
>
>Looking at the docs and guessing I assume I need to export root with the
>sparc binaries in?
>I don't see how I can do this as I need /sbin and /lib to contain x86
>bins for the pc and sparc bins for the sparc. There must be some way to
>do a boot net install from another OS / architecture?
>Am I missing something here. The nice html pages don't mention this and
>the install.txt does suggest you have to export / ?
>

you make something like /export/sparc/root/machinename and export that as
root [adding it to bootparams, if you are using that]

christos