[rescue] Netboot SunOS 4?

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Bunches of good info here. I'll get to reading.

Thanks folks!

William

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:13 PM Richard <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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