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 command to copy the boot software from the x86 Solaris CD to the server-2 local disk (in the /export/boot directory).

You insert the x86 Solaris CD into the server-2 CD-ROM drive.

server-2# cd /CD_mount_point/Solaris_2.7/Tools
server-2# ./setup_install_server -b /export/boot

In the setup_install_server command,