Solaris Jumpstart

I have written a collection of scripts (which was released as part of the SUNWjmigr package) which extends this mechanism to facilitate the migration of SunOS machines to Solaris. It preserves previous system configuration as much as possible and allows for one migration engineer to migrate a large number of workstations simultaneously over the network without any human intervention. It is ideal for migrating large sites with limited human resources for migration.

This facility was used at Cadence Design Systems with very successful results. Although this package is no longer distributed by Sun, you may still download the jumpstart scripts from here.