Sun Microsystems X1150A manual To Set Up a GigaSwift Ethernet Port on a Diskless Client

3.Create an appropriate entry in the /etc/hosts file for each active ce interface. For example:

#cat /etc/hosts

#Internet host table

127.0.0.1localhost

129.144.10.57 zardoz loghost

129.144.11.83 zardoz-11

Setting Up a GigaSwift Ethernet Network on a Diskless Client System

Before you can boot and operate a diskless client system across a gigabit Ethernet network, you must first install the GigaSwift Ethernet software packages into the root directory of the diskless client. You can find the GigaSwift Ethernet software packages on the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1.0 Update 1 CD. Refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide and the System Administration Guide for more information about installing and administering diskless client systems.

Note –The Solaris 8 operating environment does not support diskless clients.

▼To Set Up a GigaSwift Ethernet Port on a Diskless Client

1.Locate the root directory of the diskless client on the host server.

The root directory of diskless client system is commonly installed in the host server’s /export/root/client_name directory, where client_name is the diskless client’s host name. In this procedure, the root directory will be:

/export/root/client_name

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