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3-6 SunFastEthernet Adapter 2.0 Installation and User’s Guide—July 1996
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3.5 Booting
The following sections discuss various ways of booting. See the section that
applies to your specific needs. Refer to the Solaris 2.x Handbook for SMCC
Peripherals manual or your Solaris documentation if your operating
environment is not detailed below.
3.5.1 Booting From the Network Using Solaris 2.5
To use the SunFastEthernet Adapter Ethernet interface as the boot device for
Solaris 2.5 systems, perform the following tasks.
1. At the ok prompt type:
The show-devs command lists the system devices. You should see the full
path name of the hme device, similar to the example below:
2. At the ok prompt type:
3.5.2 Diskless Client Booting for Solaris 2.4
In order to boot a diskless client with a local SunFastEthernet Adapter interface
(
hme ) on a Solaris 2.4 system, the following tasks must be performed on the
boot server.
1. Go to your client’s root partition by typing the following:
ok show-devs
/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/SUNW,hme@3,8c00000
ok boot (full path name of the hme device)
# cd /export/root//etc