My original question was:
I've about 30 sparc stations to install with SunOs 4.1.3U1 in
a short period of time.
Is there any way to do it like in Solaris 2.3 using a install server with the command "boot net - install" ??
The majority of the answers was like the following :
use dd to clone the disks, then one at a time change the /etc/hosts and
/etc/hostnames.le0 files to give each its own personality, ie name/IP.
A different answer comes from hkatz@lehman.com:
Yes - we do this regularly here as the need to set up new workstations on
the trading floors exacts great pressure on SAs. Unfortunately this is
a proprietary solution from our firm which probably will be marketed
commercially by an employee who left the firm to start his own firm (with
this and other products). I will tell you that the code is not that
awe inspiring and is not that much advanced than using add_services on
SunOS to make a boot server on your net. This product, however, one-ups
this SunOS feature by trapping rarpd requests from the client workstation
(s - up to 5 at a time - possibly more depending on your network) and
replies by booting off this server and starting to install the OS over
NFS mounts. I can find out this firms email address tomorrow from work
if you really wish to pursue them.
Thanks to all :
louis@meg.meg.saic.com
feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu
rwolf@dciem.dnd.ca
pam@fimad1.lanl.gov
batman!gravatt@uunet.uu.net
sargent%tusk@orsun.SAIC.COM
rao@hobbes.crc.com
hkatz@lehman.com
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