SUMMARY: Diskless Ultra 5 ?

From: Oddvar Andreassen (oda@fs.siemens.no)
Date: Mon Jul 20 1998 - 08:54:39 CDT


A few responses to this problem, and only one of
them (Ronald Loftin, reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu)
pointed in the right direction.
Several said that Solaris 2.5.1 HW 11/97 was required,
but I already had this as mentioned in my initial mail.

Solution:
On the Solaris 2.5.1 HW 11/97 CD (and similar on the 2.6 CD)
there is a maintenance upgrade which has to be applied to
each diskless client before they are willing to boot:

cd /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/MU
./install_mu -R /export/root/client_name

This has to be done for each client, and took a long time
(more than an hour) but then the client boots properly.

After this solution was found, our local Sun support has found
that applying patches 104628-05 and 105004-09 with admclientpatch
also makes booting of diskless Ultra 5 and 10 with Solaris 2.5.1
HW 11/97 work. Probably this is faster than the maintenance upgrade.

Oddvar

Original posting:

>
> Has anyone of you succeded in booting an Ultra 5
> as diskless Solaris client with Solaris 2.5.1 ?
>
> I have a SPARCstation 20 with Solaris 2.5.1 HW 11/97
> as OS server, running NIS+, and have used Solstice
> Adminsuite to define the Ultra 5 as a Solaris
> diskless client (sun4u).
>
> The client starts booting, finds its hostname,
> domain, root directory, loads a little bit,
> then PANICS and resets, and starts the boot process
> again in an infinite loop.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Oddvar
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Oddvar Andreassen --- Siemens Forsvarssystemer AS, Oslo
>



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