Re: Diskless Ultra 1 possible?

From: rodders (john.rodders_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: 25 Mar 2005 06:39:42 -0800

> Why* do you want it to be diskless?

Mostly because i don't have a hard drive for it, and anyway hard drives
make a noise and use power.
Also i just feel like it :)

> "Buy it Now" at $39.00 (Plus $19 S&H fee -- you have to look out for
> those).

Thats about £30, the ultra was £12. I suppose I might have to buy a
disk, but it seems the config i suggested _is_ possible in a sane OS as
proven by the Diskless NetBSD HOWTO -
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
Root over NFS HOWTO -
http://fsug.org.usyd.edu.au/documentation/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO.html

Back to the origonal questions, what am i doing wrong so that I don't
see a Solaris installer? is it just that those instructions (
http://www.znark.com/tech/solarisinstall.html ) assume i have a HDD?
Should I create the Solaris file system by hand and then serve it over
NFS?
Does everyone really think this is bad idea?

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