Hi,

> Truely, I'm surprised that the SPARC side needs the dhcp in 'boot net - 
> install dhcp' 

This is 'boot net:dhcp - install'

> is there anything 
> specific about the Sun vendor options that makes them incompatible with 
> the other DHCP servers out there?

I'm using ISC dhcp server for years now without any problems. 

> What I want is one place (NIS,NIS+,LDAP,DHCP,BOOTPARAMS or Something 
> New,) to configure *ALL* the information for a network boot client.
 
I agree, but please make it possible to install without any running nameservice.
By now I only need DHCP, TFTP and NFS during installation.

> It should be the same for X86 and SPARC

+1

> As a slightly related suggestion, I would like to see GRUB (especially 
> if it is to appear on SPARC) expanded to be more like OBP.

OBP is so much better than GRUB. Why do we need GRUB on SPARC?

> Solaris could actually make 
> (the on disk GRUB - not PXEGRUB) honor a 'reboot -- 'net - install''

+1


Willi


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