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If this system is a server, then you should follow the instructions in the Sun docs as mentioned in a previous reply. If it is a workstation, then it probably would be easier and cleaner, just to do the Initial Install option.

Unless you need the data on that particular drive, you really shouldn't have to install Disksuite. If the format command sees the drive, then go into format and re-partition the drive to whatever slices you may want and then re-label the drive before exiting the format program. Then do a...

Do a STOP-A to get to the "ok" prompt and do a boot -s. If the system allows that, then you can cd /etc or /var to try to fix the permissions problems.

In addition to checking the external SCSI ID switch on the box, you can also do a probe-scsi-all from the "ok" prompt. Your new drive(s) should show up there if you have no conflicts. I try to set external disk devices at either SCSI ID 2 or 4 and reserve 0 and 3 for internal drives...

In addition to the things that "bstep" mentioned, make sure that the IP address for the client is in the /etc/inet/hosts file of the jumpstart server, and if your jumpstart server is also your NIS server, put the client entry in the NIS hosts file also.

I got my start by doing one job half-time and then doing Unix Sys. Admin. the other half. Eventually we got more and more Unix servers and workstations, and the job developed into a full-time career. On-the-job training is always the best training, but I would recommend that you at least take...