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3. Use the cd command and go to the directory containing your particular
architecture.
4. Type the following line to get a listing for the minor device number for
the be0 device:
The resultant listing will have the following format:
5. For the above example the minor-device-number should be added to the
etc/name_to_major file as follows:
4.3.2 Diskless Clients
For support of diskless client booting do the following:
1. Go to your clients root partition and use your favorite editor to add an
entry for the be device to your clients name_to_major file as follows:
2. Edit the name_to_major file by adding an entry for the be device.
If the major device number for the last file entry is “n” then use ” n+1” for
the be channel major device number. As shown in the example, if the last
entry is qe 104 then use be 105.
# ls -l devices/pseudo/clone@0:be
crw-rw-rw 1 root sys 11,<minor-device number> <date>
/devices/pseudo/clone@0:be
be <minor-device-number>
# cd /export/root/<client name>/etc
qec 103
qe 104
be 105