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ABOOTING THE NETBUILDER II CEC

TFTP/FTP Server If you do not have a ﬂash memory drive or want to manage the software for one

or more bridge/routers on a centralized server, you can boot from a Trivial File

Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server. Conﬁguration ﬁles can be accessed from the same

workstation running a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server program.

Network boot is not supported by the NETBuilder II bridge/routers with the DPE

modules installed.

When you set up your NETBuilder bridge/router for network boot, you must

conﬁgure your bridge/router to boot from a particular server by specifying the IP

address of that server to the bridge/router. If you do not want to specify a

particular server, you may conﬁgure your NETBuilder II bridge/router to use BOOTP,

which discovers available TFTP servers on the local network by broadcasting

BOOTP request packets. For more information about BOOTP, refer to Reference for

NETBuilder Family Software.

Installing NETBuilder

Software on the

UNIX-based Network

Management Station

This section describes how to install NETBuilder II bridge/router software on a

UNIX-based network management station.

Prerequisites

To install the NETBuilder II bridge/router software image from a CD-ROM, the

CD-ROM drive must reside either locally on the network management station or

on another system on the network.

Before installing version 10.1 software from a CD-ROM, check that:

■Your network management station is running Solaris 2.4 or 2.5x, SunOS 4.1.4,

HP-UX 9.0.5, 10.10 or 10.20, or IBM AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.4 or 4.2.

To verify the operating system environment you are running, enter:

uname -a

The version message will refer to Solaris 2.5x as SunOS 5.5.

■You know the root password.

■There is sufﬁcient disk space on the network management station for the

amount of software you are installing.

Minimal disk storage requirements are dependent on the number of

NETBuilder systems being installed. For dual image support allocate 40 MB

for the NETBuilder Upgrade Management Utilities software image. For single

image support, allocate 4 MB for each NETBuilder II system.

■The NETBuilder Upgrade Management Utilities released with this software

package have been installed on the network management station. Refer to

Upgrading NETBuilder Family Software for more information.