Project Cascade and Jumpstart for Solaris 1

Engineering insurers, National Vulcan placed a large order for IPX workstations. I devised a simple, but elegant system for installing and configuring the systems that leveraged Solaris 2’s JumpStart and NIS netgroups (the clever bit is that the target system was Solaris 1). This was then also rolled out a number of other customers (including some universities).

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