[rescue] Netboot SunOS 4?

[Andy Wallis]

> On 2/24/22 12:58, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>> The 411 w/cdrom I bought to set up my IPX arrived in far more pieces
>> than
>> I'd have believed possible.
>
>    That's heartbreaking to hear.
>
>> 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.

Last year, I wrote a pair of guides on how to netboot SunOS 4.0.3 and
SunOS 4.1. From there, you can use suninstall to install to the local hard
disk. You can then copy the .tar.Z files to somewhere in the netbooted
root and use the local directory option for the distribution.

This gives you a bit more freedom than the miniroot install. For bonus
points, you could do a find | cpio and dump it to the local disk and then
run installboot.

http://www.panix.com/~rawallis/sunos41_diskless.html
http://www.panix.com/~rawallis/sunos403c_diskless.html