[PLUG] [OT] solaris 9 netinstall

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I am trying to setup a net install of solaris 9 onto an old sparc which
has no cdrom drive.

I have setup the rarp, tftp, bootparam.

I am at the stage where one looks via tcpdump to see what kernel is being
sought, the other way is to do some simple ip math. Either way, I'm
stumped as I can't read the s1 dir on the installer cdrom where the kernel
lives.

Any ideas? I want to use a freebsd i386 install server, but I can use
openbsd or linux if it's easier.

I am running openbsd on the sparc now, but I really need solaris for a
project I'm working on.

I have heard that sun recently changed their cdrom setup to include a
secret slice, s1, which could only be mounted under solaris. Is there a
way to mount this under another os?

Thanks.

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin
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