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SunSwift SBus Adapter Installation and User’s GuideDecember 1995

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1.3.1 Using the SunSwift SBus Adapter as Your Only Ethernet Interface

You will be installing software from the Solaris 2.5 CD-ROM. Make sure the
Solaris 2.5 CD-ROM is properly placed in the CD-ROM drive before
performing the following tasks.

1. As superuser, add the

SUNWhmd

and

SUNWhmdu

packages to your system:

2. For both packages, answer

/

to the following question:

You will receive a message stating the process was successful.

3. Assign an IP address and host name for the SunSwift SBus Adapter

Ethernet channel.
For example,

123.456.78.90

(IP address);

zardoz

(host name).

4. Edit the

/etc/hosts

file and remove your existing Ethernet interface’s

IP address and host name.

5. Add an entry to the

/etc/hosts

file containing the new IP address and

host name for the selected

hme

channel.

This is the IP address and host name that you assigned in step 3.

6. Remove your existing Ethernet interface’s

/etc/hostname.xx

file

from your system.

7. Create a

/etc/hostname.hme

file for the Ethernet channel you are

planning to use for the SunSwift SBus Adapter.

hostname

is literal. Type

hostname

.

num

is the instance number of the SBus card installation. Use

0

for the first

SunSwift SBus Adapter installation,

1

for the second instance, and so on.

8. In this file, add a line containing just the host name that you assigned for

the SunSwift SBus Adapter. For example, if your host name is

zardoz

,

enter just this word.

# pkgadd -a none -d /cdrom/solaris_2_5_sparc/s0/Solaris_2.5 SUNWhmd SUNWhmdu

Enter path to package directory [?,q]

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