[laptop-discuss] problem installing opensolaris on a laptop from cd

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>A NetBSD developer friend of mine recently tried (on my advice) the
>latest (b46) SXCR.   He was loading it on an older laptop (not sure the
>make/model), but he only had CD, no DVD.  Its possible that this was
>connected via pcmcia, but I'm not sure.

PCMCIA connected CDs will not likely work; I have one; I was able
to use it to boot the DCA (and it would presumably also boot the
x86.miniroot file.

Then you have an issue: you can no longer find the CD.

>Another possible thought: it would be nice to be able to "trivially" set
>up netboot / PXEboot from Linux or *BSD.  I know that it isn't hard, but
>I don't always have the recipe handy (my boot servers all run Solaris)
>... maybe someone can cobble up a setup_install_server.linux or .netbsd
>(or make setup_install_server support Linux or *BSD).  I would imagine
>that would be a boon to some folks.

That would be cool.

Casper