Yesterday I wrote:

> Trying to fill this gap,
> I expressed *my* understanding of jumpstart
> in a 20KB text describing *a particular example*
> of jumpstart configuration;
> it contains
> 
>  1. Introduction and terminology (mostly network booting basics)
>  2. Example setup
>  3. Instructions
>  4. Troubleshooting
>  5. Other sources
>  6. Appendix (patching using Casper's fastpatch and add_bootclient
> scripts)
> 
> If there will be more than three requests - I shall post my 20KB here.
> If folks can suggest an ftp site to upload it - share and enjoy.


I've got such a number of requests that believe 
we'll need a separate jumpstart newsgroup soon :-)
Alternatively, it seems to be a reasonable idea,
to set up a public ftp site with different examples of jumpstart
configurations posted by volunteers. 
This would save lot of time for many sysadms re-inventing the
wheel by writing lots of begin/finish scripts 
that probably have been already written many times before.

As an example, at the moment I'm wasting my time trying to make
Oracle installation totally non-interactive, in order to
get a "push-button" jumpstart of Oracle server.
And I have to do it for Sybase as well.
I'm sure somebody has done it before. Am I wrong?

Anyway, I hope this posting will be really helpful.

This description totally relies on NIS,
but IMHO it should not be a problem to extrapolate it to NIS+ or
nameservice=none (files). Just keep this in mind when reading.
Also, the text may sometimes refer to the files that are not
in this posting, but IMHO it should be trivial to create these.
Also, I've never installed Solaris on x86 architecture,
so the some parts of the text are applicable to SPARC only.

Happy installations

Andrey