Create a Boot Server for Marketing Systems

Systems cannot boot from an install server on a different subnet, so you make server-2 a boot server on the marketing group's subnet. You use the setup_install_server(1M) command to copy the boot software from the CD labeled Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition to the server-2 local disk (in the /export/boot directory):

You insert the CD labeled Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition into the CD-ROM drive attached to server-2:

server-2# cd /CD_mount_point/Solaris_8/Tools
server-2# ./setup_install_server -b /export/boot

In the setup_install_server command, -b specifies that setup_install_server is to copy the boot information from the CD labeled Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition to the directory named /export/boot.