JumpStart Network Boot problem

Network boot of Ultra 10 test machine from JS environment on a RedHat FC3 box all works perfectly with a Solaris 9 (0404) kernel and network boot directory structure.
When attempting jumpstart with a Solaris 10 FCS kernel and jumpstart environment, after
boot net:dhcp - install
I see usual boot device stuff, then the tftp transfer of
38600
and then
Requesting Ethernet address for IP.AD.DR.ES
boot: failed to allocate 8192 bytes from scratch memory
panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow
Program terminated
ok
All the refs I can find to the scratch memory overflow problem suggest a problem back in the days of a Solaris 8 kernel that a later patch solved anyway.
Firstly, has anyone one else seen similar errors to mine with a Sol10 JS ?
Secondly, has anyone any other ideas as to what's going on here (other than the unlikely chance that I have a Solaris 8 kernel inside my Sol10 JS environment !!)

This is an old thread, but I found it along my searches for the same issue - only one Sun box, and no CD/DVDROM.
I had exactly the same setup - FC3 jumpstart server which worked fine for Sol9, but failed with Sol10. The Sol10 NFSv4 client has difficulties during install talking to the Linux NFS server. One can work out the issues, installing NFSv4 - see http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ - and fixing a few other problems - see http://www.tzone.org/~vandry/howto/solaris10-install-from-linux.html - or move to a FreeBSD or NetBSD jumpstart server.
I wrote a little how-to on setting up a FreeBSD jumpstart server for Solaris 10 which can be found at http://www.pbandjelly.org/item/38
I hope this can help out those people trying to find a solution in setting up their Sun with jumpstart.
Kind Regards,
Michael

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