Sorry for the bit waste -- It's an rtfm. Had I been able to find the manual after several hours of googling and searching opensolaris.org, I'd have read it ;) Anyway, yeah, section 4 in link below was the answer, which I found kinda perverse having figured it out blindly guessing by myself before reading Sundar's good advice here:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/bothclient.html Note that the installadm command that gives you your command line to send to your DHCP server neglects to address this requirement, which could constitute an error of omission. I'll file it if you want. thx jake -- This message posted from opensolaris.org