Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration

Boot Over the Network or with Custom Files

Prerequisite: The network and/or custom files are correctly set up.

See the Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide, 806-0957-10, which describes network installations. The Solaris network installation procedures apply to Trusted Solaris network installations, with the Trusted Solaris security protections described in "Trusted Solaris Modifications to Network Installation" and "Setting Up Custom JumpStart Installation".

Boot using the appropriate boot command on the system being installed.

Example 3-3 SPARC: Boot command for a network installation

boot net

Example 3-4 SPARC: Boot command for a custom JumpStart installation

boot net - install

A space is required between the minus sign and install.

After you type the boot command, the system checks hardware and system components, then connects with the install server. The following screen provides an example of what you see.

Rebooting with command: boot net - install
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/network@1,1      File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Trusted_Solaris_8 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2001, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Configured interface hme0
Using sysid configuration file 
192.168.114.1:/export/install/jumpstart/sysidcfg/siysidcfg
Starting OpenWindows...

Answer any prompts that appear.

For JumpStart installations--If you have set them up correctly, you are not prompted for information.

For network installations--If you have set them up correctly, you are prompted for disk partitioning and other information after system identification is completed.