Booting a Diskless Client System (Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Release Notes)

Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Release Notes

Booting a Diskless Client System

Note -

This section should be appended to Chapter 3 of the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User's Guide.

In order to boot a diskless client with a local Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter interface (qfe), the following tasks must be performed on the boot server.

Go to your client's root partition by typing the following:
```
# cd /export/root/<client name>/etc
```

Search the name_to_major file for Quad FastEthernet (qfe) entries.
```
# grep qfe name_to_major
```
If this file already has a Quad FastEthernet (qfe) entry, skip to Step 4.

If the name_to_major file does not contain a Quad FastEthernet (qfe) entry, use a text editor to add an entry for the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter device (qfe).

If the major device number for the last file entry is n, use n+1 for the qfe channel major device number. As shown in the example below, if the last entry for the major device number is 108, use 109 for the qfe device.
```
. . .
llcl 107
audiocs 108
qfe 109
```

Check the driver_aliases file for the pci_pci line required by the adapter.
```
# grep 'pci_pci "pci1011,25"' driver_aliases
```
If this line already exists in the driver_aliases file, you can skip to Step 6. Otherwise, you will need to add this line to the file before installing the adapter.

Using a text editor, add the following line to the end of the driver_aliases file.
```
pci_pci "pci1011,25"
```

Check the driver_aliases file for the qfe line required by the adapter.
```
# grep 'qfe SUNW,qfe' driver_aliases
```
If this line already exists in the driver_aliases file, you can skip to Step 8. Otherwise, you will need to add this line to the file before installing the adapter.

Using a text editor, add the following line to the end of the driver_aliases file.
```
qfe SUNW,qfe
```

Create the following symbolic link.

# ln -s <archive_of_arch>/devices/pseudo/clone@0:qfe <archive_of_arch>/dev/qfe

Insert and mount the Sun Quad FastEthernet 2.1 CD-ROM.
- If your system is running Volume Manager, it should automatically mount the CD-ROM to the /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_1 directory.
- If your system is not running Volume Manager, mount the CD-ROM as follows:
```
# mkdir -p /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_1
# mount -F hsfs -r /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_1
```

Copy the qfe driver from the CD-ROM to the client's root partition.

In the steps below, replace DIR with the directory where the Solaris software is located on the client system.
1. For Solaris 2.5.1 operating systems, type:
```
# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_1/Sol_2.5.1+/SUNWqfed/reloc/kernel/drv/qfe \ 
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv
```
2. For the Solaris 2.6 operating system, type:
```
# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_1/Sol_2.6/SUNWqfed/reloc/kernel/drv/qfe \ 
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv
```

Unmount and eject the CD-ROM as follows:
```
# cd /
# umount /cdrom
# eject cdrom
```

Create a hostname.qfe<num> file for the client in the /etc directory of the client's root partition.

See "Configuring the Host Files" for more information.

Reboot your system.