26 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009

▼To Set Up a 10-Gigabit 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, whereclient_name is the diskless
client’s host name. In this procedure, the root directoryis:
2. Download the software for Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP
Low ProfileAdapter onto the server ’sdrive.
3. Use the pkgadd -R command to install the software packages to the diskless
client’sroot directory on the server.
Install the software packages to the client’s root directory.
4. Create a hostname.nxgenumber file in the diskless client’s root directory.
Create an /export/root/client-name/etc/hostname.nxgenumber file for the 10-
Gigabit Ethernet interface. See “Configuring the Network Host Files” on page 23 for
instructions.
5. Edit the hosts file in the diskless client’s root directory.
Edit the /export/root/client-name/etc/hosts file to include the IP address of
the 10-Gigabit Ethernet interface. See “Configuring the Network Host Files” on
page23 for instructions.
6. Set the MAC address on the server side and rebuild the device tree if you want to
boot from the 10-Gigabit Ethernet port.
7. To boot the diskless client from the 10-Gigabit Ethernet port, type the following
boot command:
/export/root/client-name
ok boot path-to-device:link-param