To install on a client, Booting a diskless client over sunfddi/p, To boot a diskless client – Sun Microsystems 1.0 User Manual

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Setting Up Servers and Diskless Clients

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Installing the SunFDDI/P Driver for a Diskless Client

After you have created the export file systems under

/export/root

and

/export/swap

/ on the server, you must install the SunFDDI/P

device driver for the diskless client.

▼

To Install on a Client

1. Use

pkgadd

to install the Solaris 2.5.1 version of SunFDDI/P so that it is

exported to the diskless client.
By default, the SunFDDI/P software is installed under

/opt

2. To redirect the installation so that the package is installed in the root

partition for the diskless client, type:

Follow the installation instructions contained in the section “Installing and
Configuring SunFDDI/P” on page 13.

Booting a Diskless Client Over SunFDDI/P

You need to specify the SunFDDI/P interface when you boot your diskless
client over the FDDI network.

▼ To Boot a Diskless Client

1. Check that the server is running and that its FDDI interface is up.

2. Switch on the diskless client and press

(Stop)

-a

to halt the boot

procedure.

# pkgadd -R /export/root/

—d /cdrom/sun_fddip_1_0