On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:56:32PM -0400, Chris Tresco wrote:
> Is it possible to make netbsd or linux or anything not solaris be a boot
> server/install server for a Sun OS??
> 
> Basically I have a NetBSD based sparc 20 and I just grabbed the Solaris 9
> cds and wanted to give it a shot.  THe ss20 has a 1gb disk in it that won't
> hold sol 9.  So I went to swap the disk in the thing only to find that it
> was friggin 80 pin.  So I took it out and put in a bigger disk, but had to
> sacrifice the cdrom since my disk was 50 pin.  So now comes the question....
> 
> How do I install Solaris 9 over the network without another Sun-based box
> around??  If I could mount the multiple volumes on the install cds then I
> could do it, but I can't (or can't figure out how).....

Well, I looked a bit at this, but the sun bootparamd seems to have some
extentions which are needed to netboot solaris7.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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