In article <42b1d7c6$0$305$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>,
Chris Lawson <newsgroups@spamtrap.com> wrote:
>chadmjohn@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have a need to perform jumpstart installations across subnets and
>> will not be able to provide a boot server at each subnet. I can create
>> jumpstart on a bootable cd, which is essentially a portable (yet local
>> to the installing client)jumpstart installation system or I can create
>> profile diskettes to be used for the installation information.
>>
>
><snip>
>
>Perhaps WAN Boot would do what you're looking for.
>
>Overview
>http://www.sun.com/software/whitepap...secure_wan.pdf
>
>How to
>http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817...kv4nh4g?a=view
>
>--
>Chris


on sparc, what i do is put an ordinary solaris distribution
CD (the 1 of 2 CD, ie, the CD with the boot image on it)
and say:
boot cdrom - install nfs://<ipaddress>/tmp/Q/v440m.tar dhcp nowin

the ipaddress is the ip address of the jumpstart server.
we assume you can do nfs across subnets.
my dhcp server will give the machine its hostname and ip.
the v440m.tar is a tar file of the machine's profile,
rules.ok, sysidcfg, ....
it lives in /tmp/Q so i don't have to type so much.


or you can try a Begin script that mounts the
OS distribution under /cdrom.....


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Head of Sun Support, Sr. Operating Systems Specialist
Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224
University of Texas at Austin