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osX, boot server for solaris, ipod, and recant (how embarassing)

all,

OOPS! i spoke too soon- i have NOT installed solaris from a sun client,
using my mcTiPoBook as a boot/install server completely (yet), as i
claimed. i have made progress though.

(briefly, a few folks have asked about accesing ipods- i just heard
from someone who did export the ipod drive from osX via, and backed it
up from their sun machine...)

booting solaris from an osX machine-

working: rarpd and bootparamd from the command line, in debug mode, nfs
mount, and up to the point of reading SOME bootparams info from
netinfo.

not working: reading SOME bootparams info from netinfo. also, i know
there is a problem reading properly an nfs mounted cd: when trying to
list the contents of the Product directory (solaris cd), i never get a
correct list- with 603 (or 601) directories, a standard "ls" says there
are 40 or something- and get this- some of thema are identical names,
in triplicate! so, that looks like maybe an issue of hfs+ and nfs(?),
and it could be part of the problem.

another related issue is that a copied cd to the mac harddrive fails
because most of the devices in ../devices/pseudo/ require mknod for
them to be created, but the major and minor numbers don't correlate
with devices on the mcTiPoBook, so it simply doesn't work... so much
for booting from an installed copy of the cd, on the osX machine.

i read something about a basic issue involving exporting a cd- someone
said it doesn't work at all- well, it does, partially at least.

right now, i've booted to the point of reading the bootparams entry for
rootopts. i'm not sure if that worked properly. a snoop seems to
indicate it was read and the nfs mount takes place of the
../Solaris/Tools/Boot directory just afterward. so far so good, and
then there's a lot of reading from the cd, but at some point it simply
stops. the "boottype" parameter is not read up to the hang, and the
output from bootparamd -d doesn't report any errors. the snoop shows
lots of "No such file or directory" entries (some are normal for a
successful boot between sun install server and clients), but otherwise
there are no salient errors, which would lead me where to look. by the
way, i had to insert the server name after the = sign for the
parameters boottype and rootopts, so it wouldn't complain about which
server it was coming from. also, i suspect the rootopts entry, since
it has two = signs, which i am not sure bootparamd delivers as a good
key/value pair.

any ideas out there? several people have contributed ideas and
suggestions so far- thanks. need some more now...

ciao,

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