18 Platform Notes: The Sun GigabitEthernet Device Driver • March 1999
3. Create an appropriate entry in the /etc/hosts file for each active ge interface.
For example:
4. If your system does not support Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), reboot.
▼To Set Up a Diskless Client on a Server
Youcan set up a server so that you can boot and run diskless clients across a
GigabitEthernet network.
1. Determine the client’s root directory onto which you want to install the ge driver.
For the following example, the root directory is
2. Use pkgadd to install the ge driver in the root partition of the diskless client on
the server,where xis 5.1+ for Solaris 2.5.1+, 6 for Solaris 2.6, or 7 for Solaris 7.
3. Set up the /export/root/client_name/hostname.genum file. See “Network
Configuration”on page 16.
4. Set up the /export/root/client_name/hosts file. See “Network Configuration”
on page 16.
#cat /etc/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
129.144.10.57 zardoz loghost
129.144.11.83 zardoz-11
#/export/root/client_name
#pkgadd -R /export/root/client_name —d \
/cdrom/sun_gigabitethernet_2_0/Sol_2.x