[21429] in Athena Bugs
bootkit install procedure instructions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Feb 5 23:05:27 2003
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:04:43 -0500
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1) The numbering in solarisinstall/README is wacky. 1, 2, 2a, 2, 3?
And they're not logically sequential; if you're netbooting, you
want 2a and the second 2 (and 3 I guess), but 1 is only part of the
floppy boot process.
2) The solarisinstall/README.net file starts with:
(These are not install instructions. look at
/mit/bootkit/solarisinstall/README for install instructions.)
But a critical piece of information for installation -- namely that
on some Ultra systems you may have to enter the address octet
values in hex because of PROM bugs -- is only found later in
README.net, and not in README at all.
3) The solarisinstall/README instructions say that in some cases you
might have to add the gateway address at the end. With the PROM
code in my Ultra 10, it complains about the syntax when I try that.
(Don't know if that's related to failing to properly parse the
server address or something.)
Ken
