NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/alt/sys/sun/3005

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!socrates!mike
From: [e-mail] (Mike Santangelo (UNIX/VMS Sysmgr))
Subject: How to boot diskless IPC?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: Need to know how to config other Sun to allow remote boot of a Sun IPC
Keywords: Sun IPC, diskless, boot
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:54:24 GMT
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Have a Sun IPC with a clobbered internal hard disk and need to boot
the think diskless in order to get some software back into it.  We
have several other Sun SPARC systems (IPC, II's, etc), and want to
make one of them available for a diskless boot of this poor IPC
over the ethernet.  How do I set up one of these running machines
to do this?  It looks like as if one file to set up is '/etc/bootparams'
but my concern is that if I export the root file system of one of
my working Suns to the one that needs to be booted diskless, that
this may not be a good idea as the Sun being booted diskless may
decide to overwrite partitions on the server Sun.  Do I need to
make a copy of the root partition and its directories to another
area and export this via /etc/bootparams?  I don't want to set
this up in any kind of permanent way, so don't need anything fancy,
just need to boot this Sun IPC with the clobbered hard disk so I
can re-newfs it and re-install SunOS.

Thanks.

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