installation without CDROM

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 24 19:38:47 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:33:22PM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote:
> I understand how to mount an ISO image and share it via NFS or FTP,
> but the docs leave out one major step:  how do I boot the machine INTO
> the installer to choose the media??  I've got a floppy drive, but the
> 5.3/4-RELEASE area in FTP has no floppy directory

On sparc64 you have to install from CDROM burned on another machine.

Kris
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