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

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