Sun 3/60 -- Setting up netboot on a Fedora system

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List:       classiccmp
Subject:    Re: Looking for SunOS 4.1.* (sun3) cd image
From:       Brian Wheeler 
Date:       2011-09-05 0:19:03
Message-ID: 1315181946.1766.12.camel () bender
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On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:02 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 07:49 PM, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > I've written some documentation for myself to netboot and then
> > netinstall from a centos server.  If anyone is interested, I can post
> > it.  To do the netinstall rsh has to be enabled and the cdrom data has
> > to be located at /usr/etc/install/tar on the server machine.
> 
>    Oh yes, please do, that could be handy!
> 
>            -Dave
> 


Its a little rough, but it should cover most of the nasty parts.

Brian

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SunOS 4.1.1 Network Installation 

For my setup, I used these settings:
    * the ip for the sun box will be 192.168.0.92
    * the mac address for the sun box is 08:00:20:00:4E:BD
    * the ip for the server box will be 192.168.0.253
    * the server box is Centos 5
    * the name of the sun box is (creatively) sun3
    * the nfsroot for the sun3 box is server:/raid/shared/sun3
($SUN3HOME)


1) download these directories from www.sun3arc.org somewhere ($SUN3ARC):
     BootTapes/Sun3
     Misc-Patches
     Sun-Patches
     precompiled

2) create root directory for the sun3 to nfs boot into.  you'll need to be
   root so all of the permissions and ownership are set correctly.
   cd $SUN3HOME
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_proto_root.sunos_4_1_1.tar.Z
   mkdir usr
   cd usr
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_usr.tar.Z 
   mkdir kvm
   cd kvm
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_kvm.tar.Z
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_sys.tar.Z
   cd $SUN3HOME/usr
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_install.tar.Z
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_manual.tar.Z
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_text.tar.Z
   tar -xzf $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/sun3_networking.tar.Z
   cd $SUN3HOME
   ln -s usr/kvm/stand/vmunix .
   cp $SUN3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/miniroot_sun3 .
   cp $SUn3ARC/BootTapes/Sun3/munix* .
   cd dev
   ./MAKEDEV std

3) create a swap file
   cd $SUN3HOME
   dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1048576 count=64

4) setup rarpd
4a) install rarpd
yum install -y rarpd
4b) populate /etc/ethers:
08:00:20:00:4E:BD	192.168.0.92
4c) start rarpd
/sbin/service rarpd start

5) setup tftp
5a) install tftp 
yum install -y tftp-server tftp
5b) link to standalone boot.  Hex value of 192.168.0.92 is C0A8005C
cd /tftpboot
cp $SUN3HOME/usr/kvm/stand/boot.sun3 .
ln -s boot3.sun C0A8005C
5c) enable tftp by setting 'disable' to 'no' in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
5d) restart xinetd
/sbin/service xinetd restart

6) give the sun3 a name.  Add this line to /etc/hosts:
192.168.0.92         sun3

7) setup bootparamd
7a) install
yum install -y bootparamd
7b) configure by adding this line to /etc/bootparams
sun3 root=192.168.0.253:/raid/shared/sun3 gateway=192.168.0.254:0xffffff00 swap=
192.168.0.253:/raid/shared/sun3/swapfile

8) setup nfs
8a) exprot the root file system and swap by adding these lines to /etc/exports
/raid/shared/sun3	192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
/raid/shared/sun3/swapfile	192.168.0.0/24(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)

9) start up all of the rpc-style servers
/sbin/service portmap restart
/sbin/service nfs restart
/sbin/service bootparamd restart

**** At this you should be able to boot the sun3 over nfs using "b le()".
**** it will have some failures, but you should have a root prompt.
**** My boot looks like this:
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>b le()
Boot: le(0,0,0) 
Using IP Address 192.168.0.92 = C0A8005C
Booting from tftp server at 192.168.0.254 = C0A800FE
Downloaded 101800 bytes from tftp server.

Using IP Address 192.168.0.92 = C0A8005C
hostname: sun3.example.com
domainname: (none)
server name '192.168.0.253'
root pathname '/raid/shared/sun3'
root on 192.168.0.253:/raid/shared/sun3 fstype nfs
Boot: vmunix
Size: 893160+189568+202104 bytes
SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Sat Oct 13 06:05:48 PDT 1990
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