Booting solaris with cd

Hi All!
I got a annoying problem here, we have about 30 PCs installed with solaris 7, I want now to backup the ufs partition, where the solaris installation is on, my idea is to boot with a solaris cd, mount the backup file server via nfs, then dump the partition I want to backup with ufsdump, for restoring would be the same procedure, only with ufsrestore..
now my problem, because I'm still quite new treating solaris issues, I just don't know how to get the network connection after I have booted with the install cd ( after starting with the webstart I got a offer from the installer, that it wants to make a partition so that it can copy all the boot files, because I don't want to have any change on my harddisk, I said no and get a shell. with ifconfig I can only see the loop device, I also tried to make a /etc/hostname.elxl0 file, but the mounted ramdisk is read only.....
How can I get network connection after booting with the Install CD?
we have 3com network cards, all the PCs are in a nis+ network.
thanks a looooot for answers
Luotao Fu

I am at an early stage with this though I started some time ago. I downloaded all the Solaris files ending up with images named like sol-8-u7-ia-v1-a.zip.
I unzipped the files.
I was not sure what to do next as I am seeing comments about renaming the files with a suffix .iso. I have not done this. I seem to have Easy CD Creator, (I can see now I have started the HP software I have) and have selected the data option. It has written the first of my files to CD. This is called sol-8-u7-ia-v1-a
I cannot boot from it, and do not know whether to change the bios to boot from CD.
Please could someone tell me where the definitive instructions are.
I found references to using downloading the DCA and putting it on to floppy. Well I have downloaded but at 1.44 Mb it will not write to a floppy!
Thanks for any help
Mike Gunner
Reading UK (at home)

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