Ideally you would want to borrow a disk and another sparc,
	build & boot netbsd on the other machine, setup dns, mail, and
	the radius server then swap the disk across to the primary.
	Check all is 100% and then transfer the data to the internal
	disk & release the spare.

	If all you can manage is a temporarily spare disk then install
	netbsd onto it and edit the dns & sendmail config files while
	still running the solaris disk, then reboot into netbsd, check
	all is ok & compile up radius. (You can run solaris binaries
	under netbsd, but native is always better :) Again, after all
	is 100%, transfer the data to the internal disk & release the
	spare.

	If you cant spare even a small scsi disk (100mb would even do)
	for the duration of the changeover, then I'd (reluctantly)
	recommend you keep with solaris :(

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Nigel Gorry wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the job of administering a Netra i400 running the Netra cutdown of
> Solaris 2.4
> 
> I would like to be able to use more than the small amount of supplied
> software and was considering scrapping solaris for NetBSD.
> 
> I was wondering if someone could advise me of a safe way of achieving this
> transition - the machine is our mail server, primary DNS, and RADIUS server
> (not really enough to justify a Sparc, but with only a 1 Mb drive I can't
> use it for much else).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel
> 
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> Nigel Gorry
> Innisfail, Queensland, Australia                  http://www.palms.nq.net
>