[rescue] Netboot SunOS 4?

[Richard]

You could also Take a look at this. I have not used it as I have long had a
net boot/install server for various machines (sun and other) on my network

https://github.com/halfmanhalftaco/sunboot

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> On 25 Feb 2022, at 07:59, Andy Wallis <rawallis at panix.com> wrote:
>
> o;?
>>
>>> 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
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