SUMMARY: Netra 20 OBP version that supports WANboot

Thanks to Dave and Colin for the responses.

The answer: No.  There is not an OBP version for a Netra 20 platform that
supports wanboot "at this time", nor is there any work-around that does not
require a boot from external media.  See below.

Andersson, Enoch (Titan) @ TITAN wrote:
> Managers,
>
> Is there an OpenBoot prom version for a Netra 20 platform that
> supports WANboot?
>

No, there is not at this time.

> After scouring the patches available on the sunsolve site, the newest
> version I found was 4.16.4, which does not have the required
"network-boot-arguments"
> environment variable.  I know that you can boot from a Solaris 10 CD
> on a platform with an older OBP version, but the whole idea of wanboot
> is a diskless install, right?  If there is not an OBP available for
> Netra 20's that supports wanboot, maybe there is some other
> work-around that would not require a cdrom -- a forth program or something
that could be saved in nvram?
>

No, there is no other way to do it.

Dave

Enoch,

I can't help with the Netra 20 firmware option. It looks like you have the
latest.

On SunSolve -
Document ID:	79120
Title:	Wanboot server setup cookbook

Suggests the following:

4. Test your WanBoot Jumpstart

If your client OBP already include support for WanBoot, you only need to
configure the network-boot-arguments variable.
If it doesn't, you need to put a "Solaris 9 12/03 1 of 2"
(minimum)
in the cdrom drive and type the following:


ok boot cdrom  -o prompt -F wanboot - install

boot> host-ip=<ip_address_of_the_client_system>
boot> subnet-mask=<netmask_for_the_subnet>
boot> router-ip=<subnet_default_router>
boot> hostname=<hostname_of_the_client_system>
boot> bootserver=http://10.16.10.99/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi
boot> go

Regards,

- Colin

> Managers,
>
> Is there an OpenBoot prom version for a Netra 20 platform that
> supports WANboot?
>
> After scouring the patches available on the sunsolve site, the newest
> version I found was 4.16.4, which does not have the required
> "network-boot-arguments" environment variable.  I know that you can
> boot from a Solaris 10 CD on a platform with an older OBP version, but
> the whole idea of wanboot is a diskless install, right?  If there is
> not an OBP available for Netra 20's that supports wanboot, maybe there
> is some other work-around that would not require a cdrom -- a forth
> program or something that could be saved in nvram?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Enoch
> _______________________________________________
> sunmanagers mailing list
> sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers