Ok - got it - needed to load up SUNWbs which is the boot server software and run inetconv, after that everything fell into place and the SPARC server is loading fine over the network:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Solaris_JumpStart_notes.html and http://blogs.sun.com/davetong/entry/fixing_jumpstart Thanks, Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org