Re: x86 jumpstart from a sparc system

From: Bruce D Porter (bdp_at_ytc1NOSPAM.co.uk)
Date: 09/08/05 

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:25:11 GMT

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:24:48 +0000, Mike Stone wrote:

> Bruce D Porter <bdp@ytc1nospam.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> You can try using a boot floppy, but it needs the correct NIC drivers.
>> Once booted from the floppy you can tell it to do a network boot.
>
> Yeah, I just found out this is how the Linux guys do it. No DHCP/PXE
> infrastructure is in there.
>
>> Or, depending on your network etc, have you a local server that can be
>> used to perform the JumpStart using DHCP ?
>
> I'm gonna load JET after all. The only real mess here is that other orgs
> use the jumpstart server and they're upset about DHCP running - forget the
> fact that DHCP is more advanced the RARP - it's just politics as usual :)
>
> Hopefully, I won't hit too many problems running Jumpstart with RARP &
> DHCP on the same box.
>
Non at all. JET will live along side a current JumpStart config, just make
sure you don't ry and config the same server for both :-)
Also there is no issue with using RARP/DHCP on the same server, JET will
happilly do both anyway.

> Guess I'll also figure out if it's technically possible.
>
> -Mike 

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	Bruce
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