To Set Up The Boot/Install Server - Sun Microsystems StorageTek PCI-X Enterprise Installation Manual

3. The client boots from the boot/install server, the interactive suninstall(1M)
application starts, and the system administrator provides configuration information
requested at the prompts.
4. After the system administrator provides all configuration information requested by
the installation program, the installation of the Solaris operating environment
begins.
5. The install image is copied to the client.
6. Before a reboot, while the client is still booted from the boot image mini-root, the
driver and any needed patches are copied from the boot/install server and then
installed in the install image.
You install the driver package and patch the install image so that the host will be
able to see the host adapter after a reboot.
Note – You can not use Jump Start until you modify the install image.
7. The host boots from the boot disk through the network adapter.

To Set Up the Boot/Install Server

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1. Switch users to root on the host to be used as the boot/install server.
% su
Password:
#
2. Use the setup_install_server(1M) command from the Tools directory in the
location where the Solaris software resides.
As shown in the following screen example, the setup_install_server command
copies the boot image to a directory on the boot/install server. (The boot directory is
named /boot_dir
command being run from the Tools directory on a mounted Solaris 8 installation
CD-ROM.
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_8/Tools
# ./setup_install_server -t /<original_OS_dir>/Boot /<new_OS_copy_dir>
/<original_OS_dir>/Boot
Installing, Connecting, and Testing the Host Bus Adapter
in the example.) The example shows the
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