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Booting from the network, To boot from the network – Sun Microsystems Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter 805-1759-10 User Manual

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Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • July 1997

2. Create an appropriate entry in the

/etc/hosts

file for each active

hme

channel.

Using the example in Step 1, you will have:

Booting from the Network

You can use the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter interface as the boot device for your
system.

To Boot from the Network

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 this example:

2. Type:

zardoz # cat /etc/hosts

...

127.0.0.1 localhost

129.144.10.57 zardoz loghost

129.144.11.83 zardoz-1

ok show-devs

/pci@1f,2000/SUNW,hme@1,1

ok boot /pci@1f,2000/SUNW,hme@1,1