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Installing SunFastEthernet Software Using Solaris 2.x

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3. Use the cd command and go to the directory containing your particular

architecture.

4. Type the following line to get a listing for the minor device number for

the be0 device:

The resultant listing will have the following format:

5. For the above example the minor-device-number should be added to the

etc/name_to_major file as follows:

4.3.2 Diskless Clients

For support of diskless client booting do the following:

1. Go to your clients root partition and use your favorite editor to add an

entry for the be device to your clients name_to_major file as follows:

2. Edit the name_to_major file by adding an entry for the be device.

If the major device number for the last file entry is “n” then use ” n+1” for
the be channel major device number. As shown in the example, if the last
entry is qe 104 then use be 105.

# ls -l devices/pseudo/clone@0:be

crw-rw-rw 1 root sys 11,

/devices/pseudo/clone@0:be

be

# cd /export/root//etc

qec 103

qe 104

be 105