Booting over the gigaswift ethernet network – Sun Microsystems GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter User Manual
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Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 2004
10. After installing the Solaris Operating System, install the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet
software on the client system.
The software installed in Step 4 was required to boot the client system over the
GigaSwift Ethernet interface. You now need to install the software in order for the
operating system to use the client’s GigaSwift Ethernet interfaces in normal
operation.
Before installing the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet software, make sure that the client
system does not already have the software installed. Use the
pkginfo
command to
see if the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet software packages are installed on the client
system.
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If the software is installed (as shown in the example above), skip to Step 11.
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If the software is not installed, install the software from Solaris Supplement CD.
See Appendix A for instructions on installing the required software packages.
11. Confirm that the network host files have been configured correctly during the
Solaris installation.
Although the Solaris software installation creates the client’s network configuration
files, you may need to edit these files to match your specific networking
environment. See “Configuring the Network Host Files” on page 25 for more
information about editing these files.
Booting Over the GigaSwift Ethernet
Network
Note –
The Solaris 9 x86 version of the operating system cannot be installed over a
GigaSwift Ethernet interface.
The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter can be linked up either with autonegotiation
enabled or disabled. When link-up is attempted with autonegotiation enabled (the
default), the link parameter capabilities (such as speed in megabits/second, duplex
and link-clock mastership only for 1000 Mbps) are automatically negotiated between
# pkginfo | grep SUNWce
system
SUNWced
Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver
system
SUNWcem
Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver Man Pages
system
SUNWcedu
Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver Headers