Installing Sol10 from DVD - USB drive as flash archive source?

[bertieb...@gmail.com]

OK. First I managed to format the removable USB drive as UFS. Then I
could mount it as a UFS drive and copy my flash archive file onto it.

I've got another machine that I want to install Solaris 10 and use
this flash archive. So I boot from DVD and was hoping to be able to
specify the USB drive as location of flash archive. Trouble is even
going into the mini-shell it doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas? Or are there easier ways to do this?

I did think of Jumpstart or specifying the flash location as netwrok
drive or FTP but I dont think thats going to work. Trouble is first
time around I had a job getting the network interface to work - not
supported during the solaris 10 install but had to install a driver
later.

Is there any way to slipstream this driver into the Solaris 10
install? (like you can do with windows)

[John D Groenveld]

In article <bb1082f7-665d-4f02...@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>,

BertieB...@gmail.com <bertieb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there any way to slipstream this driver into the Solaris 10
>install? (like you can do with windows)

See James C. Liu and Brian Dowdy's BigAdmin article on adding
device drivers to the Jumpstart boot server.
<URL:http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/device_driver_install.html>

I've used their method to add third party drivers for HBAs and
NICs.

Happy hacking,
John
groe...@acm.org