Documentation Errata

This section contains errors in the documentation that pertains to the Solaris operating environment on the Sun Enterprise 10000 server.

Fresh Install Procedure

In the "Solaris 7 5/99 on the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server" chapter of the Sun Hardware Platform Guide Solaris 7 5/99, the Fresh Install procedure points the reader to the "Setting up the SSP as a Boot Server" section if the domain in question already exists. The procedure should, however, point the reader to the "Updating the OpenBoot PROM" section.

The Fresh Install procedure is not intended to be used for installations in which the domain already has an eeprom.image file associated with it on the SSP. Note that if you have removed the domain by using the domain_remove(1M) command, you will need to perform all of the procedures in the Fresh Install section to recreate the eeprom.image. If the eeprom.image already exists, refer to the "Performing an Upgrade" section.

OBP Variables

Before you perform the boot net command from the OBP prompt (ok), you must verify that the local-mac-address? variable is set to false, which is the factory default. If it is set to true, you must ensure that this value is an appropriate local configuration.

If local-mac-address? is set to true, it may prevent the domain from successfully booting over the network.

In a netcon(1M) window, you can use the following command at the OBP prompt to display the values of the OBP variables:

ok printenv

To Set the local-mac-address? Variable

1. If the variable is set to true, use the setenv command to set it to false.

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   ok setenv local-mac-address? false
   

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Solaris Version Names

The version name for the Solaris operating environment changed in Sun publications with the release of Solaris 7 5/99; however, the version name in the code did not change. Thus, you should use 2.7 wherever the procedures call out for the version number of the operating system. For instance, in the "Creating a New Domain" procedure in the Fresh Install section, you should use 2.7 for the version name, as in the following example:

ssp# domain_create -d domain_name -b board_numbers -o 2.7 -p platform_name