3-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004
3.1.1 Solaris x86 Drivers and Documentation
For the firstfull release of the Solaris x86 software to support B100x or B200x blades,
the documentation and some mandatory patches required for Solaris 9 (12/03) are
available on the web.
Note – The Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform Documentation, Drivers, and Installation CD
that ships with the blade and chassis does not (at the time of writing) contain
documentation or patch software for running Solaris 9 x86 on a B100x blade.
Todownload the documentation and patches you need, do the following:
1. Go to the website http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/b100x/ or
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/b200x/
2. In the lefthand column click on the link called “Downloads”.
3. In the Downloads section, click “Solaris x86 SW Drivers”.
(If you have not used the Download Service before, you will be invited to register
before proceeding.)
4. Log into the download service.
5. Click "Download B100x Solaris x86 Driver Software" and save the packages to the
directory /var/tmp/blades. (The download for the B100x blade is also the
download for the B200x blade. They both require the same software.)
The file you will download is called mis.259-4174-11.zip (The last two digits in
this filename indicate the version number.The number is correct at the time of
writing, but may have subsequently been incremented).
6. Return to the web page http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/b100x or
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/b200x/
7. Click on the link called “Documentation”.
8. Download and print out the chapters of the following documents concerning
Solaris x86 installation:
■Sun Fire B1600 Chassis, and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes (this
document; you only need to print out the current chapter).
■Sun Fire B100x and B200x Server Blade Installation and Setup Guide (you only need
to print the chapter entitled “Installing Solaris x86”).
9. Proceed to Section 3.1.2, “Overview of the Solaris x86 Installation Process” on
page3-3.