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Interface – Sun Microsystems SunSwift SPARCcenter 2000 User Manual

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Preparing for Installation

1-5

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9. Power off your system, using standard shutdown procedures described in

Solaris 2.5 Handbook for SMCC Peripherals.

10. Install the SunSwift SBus Adapter as described in Chapter 2.

1.3.2 Using the SunSwift SBus Adapter and Existing 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.

If you want to use the SunSwift SBus Adapter Ethernet interface and your
existing Ethernet interface, you must perform the following tasks before
installing the SunSwift SBus Adapter.

Note – Make sure you have an Ethernet cable for each Ethernet interface.

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 add an entry 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.

# 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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