UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,

So, I'm trying desperately to get Solaris 10 installed on a Sunfire V120 without an optical drive. I have till close of business. I am not too familiar with Solaris.

I have a Sunfire 280r running Solaris 9 which has a DVD-Rom installed.

I've put my Solaris 10 DVD in that server and mounted it (to a folder called dvdrom. It wouldn't automount with VOLD and it wouldn't manually mount to cdrom either.)

I am using the instructions from sun.com for Solaris 10 Installation Guide Appendix B Installing or Upgrading Remotely.

The command it tells me to use on the 280 is ./add_install_client \
Client_system_name arch

How can I have a client system name for a server that I haven't installed the OS on?

I asked the local Solaris guru and he said I shouldn't need to specify one, that I can just use an IP address, but that doesn't appear to be true.

I then tried the command as follows
./add_install_client -i <IP address for the remote system> <name I was going to give client during install> sun4u


This command makes it think for a while before returning an error :unknown client. ...
Well of course it's unknown you silly thing, the server doesn't exist yet.

So now, because I don't really know what I'm doing here, I want to add my new name to the hosts on the 280, but I can't find an answer on how to do it. It seems everywhere I've looked on the internet just assumes its obvious.

So, can someone guide me in how to do it, or if I'm approaching this incorrectly explain what I need to do differently?
This is day 3 working on getting this installed. I may have to give up and pull a system with an optical drive from stock, but that would cost a lot of money.

The solaris appendix is useful for commands, but it doesn't really explain why you're doing things.

Thanks

The "client system name" is just the hostname you are going to give the server you are building.
Before going any further, is the Sunfire280 set up as a jumpstart?

Done this a while back. Here are my notes.

It turns out I was wrong in my initial post, the Sunfire280 is running Solaris 8. They had tried an upgrade a couple years ago to 9 and ran into many problems with CVS and decided to leave it alone.

Jumpstart is not running?
Can it even be run from Solaris 8?


I'm currently trying to borrow a T1000 that belongs to another project, If I borrow it, I may try to set up jumpstart on it so I can upgrade the V120 even though I won't need it anymore. Then I can use IT as a jumpstart for future needs. (I see a lot of SPARC servers in my future.)