HI,

ohaya wrote:
>>>Not a answer to your question but maybe a answer to your problem.
>
> The only other thing that I had to figure out was how to get the
> ethernet/MAC address of the to-be-installed servers. I ended up doing a
> "banner" in OBP at the "ok" prompt, which showed the MAC address and
> used that for each of the V240s.
>
Hmm I don't get what you mean with that, you have the MAC id in the
openboot header or what do you mean?

> As mentioned above, this all worked quite nicely.
Yes.

I myself have a problem netbooting since installed S10 but I have not
had time to debug it for a week or so (:

>
> In fact, since the other machines I have on this test network are Sun
> Blade 150s and SF280Rs, they are all in the same Platform Group (sun4u),
> so I can do all of my future installations off of that install server
> from now on!!
>
Great
> One question though:
>
> Most of these machines (the V240s and the 280Rs) are headless, so I have
> to tip into them to do the "boot net". Once I get past all of the
> installation questions, etc., and while the installation is still in
> progress, can I unplug the serial cable and move it to another machine?
>
> I'm wondering if doing that will cause the in-progress installation to
> abort because the serial connection is gone?
>
> Thanks again,
> Jim
Well I have enough selfconfidence to say that I am very unsure of RS232
every time I need to connect anything

But if you have diabled CTS/RTS or whatever the signals are named it
should not be any problem.

The next thing you could do is to install a jumpstart server making the
install automatically or do a flash install.


/michael


PS the name RS232 is from "connect 2 to 3 or 3 to 2" DS