I am currently building a jumpstart server on an Ultra 2 runnning Solaris 8 2.02 with reccomended patches. I have spooled the Solaris 2.6 CD to the server with setup_install_server. /export/install/2.6.5.98/Solaris_2.6 I have shared the directory with nfs and modified the entries in dfstab. # dfshares RESOURCE SERVER ACCESS TRANSPORT spongebob:/export spongebob - - My /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts are updated with the MAC addy / ip info for the client to be installed. Here is my problem. add_install_client -c spongebob:/export/install 420b sun4u Everytime I run the add_install_client, I get the default error response back with the add_install_client syntaxes. Is the syntax of the above command correct? I notice the jumpstart server does not have an /etc/bootparams or /tftpboot directory. Does add_install_client create these directories or is something not installed that I missed? Any help would be appreciated. -Rich

This reply is probably late for your needs, but normally you would need to provide the following parameters to add_install_client: -i client_ip_addr -e client_mac_addr -c profile_server/jumpstart_dir -s install_server/export/install -n name_service (or :none) install_client_hostname client arch (sparc or i86pc) Look at the man page for add_install_client. Yes you could manually add items to files, but you may have missed something. The /etc/bootparams file should get created (if it does not exist) when you run add_install_client. The /tftboot directory get created when you define the boot server with: # setup_install_server -b .... see the man page for it.

Does someone have jumpstart documentation and or procedures that they could send to me via email? I have not been successful with my jumpstart yet. Any help appreciated. Thanks