To set up a diskless client on a server – Sun Microsystems THE SUN 805-7945-10 User Manual

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Platform Notes: The Sun GigabitEthernet Device Driver • March 1999

3. Create an appropriate entry in the

/etc/hosts

file for each active

interface.

For example:

4. If your system does not support Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), reboot.

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To Set Up a Diskless Client on a Server

You can set up a server so that you can boot and run diskless clients across a
GigabitEthernet network.

1. Determine the client’s root directory onto which you want to install the

driver.

For the following example, the root directory is

2. Use

pkgadd

to install the

driver in the root partition of the diskless client on

the server, where x is 5.1+ for Solaris 2.5.1+, 6 for Solaris 2.6, or 7 for Solaris 7.

3. Set up the

/export/root/

client_name

/hostname.ge

num file. See “Network

4. Set up the

/export/root/

client_name

/hosts

# cat /etc/hosts

# Internet host table

127.0.0.1 localhost

129.144.10.57 zardoz loghost

129.144.11.83 zardoz-11

# /export/root/

client_name

# pkgadd -R /export/root/

client_name

—d \

/cdrom/sun_gigabitethernet_2_0/Sol_2.