[rescue] Netboot SunOS 4?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

It will definitely require some research, however I do think it is ultimately possible.

You will probably want to use Solaris 10; and, you will need to set up RARPd as well as one or two more daemons, I think.  

The CDROM can be replaced by mounting the ISO file as a read-only loopback image, which you then mount and serve to the IPX.

Essentially netbooting is similar to setting up DHCP, but with more steps.  

You will need a TFTP server to serve up the files needed.  

It has been many years since I did this - hopefully others will chime in with more detail.

Cheers,

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Barnett-Lewis" <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 10:58:45 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [rescue] Netboot SunOS 4?

The 411 w/cdrom I bought to set up my IPX arrived in far more pieces than
I'd have believed possible.

So, that leaves either another 411 or 611 box to put the salvaged cdrom
drive in or to try netbooting to install 4.1.4 onto an internal 4 gb drive.

Thus far my google-fu is failing. Does anyone know a good description on
the net for how to do this shy of waving a dead chicken over the computers
involved. I could try doing this from my Sun Blade 2500 running Solaris 10
or from WSL2 on my windows box.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Thanks!

William
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