Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus Adapter Installation and User's Guide

Booting the System

The following sections discuss various ways of booting a system containing the Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus adapter. Refer to the Solaris 2.x Handbook for SMCC Peripherals manual or your Solaris documentation for more information about booting your system.

Booting From the Network

To use a Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus adapter ethernet interface as the boot device for Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, or 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97 systems, perform the following tasks:

At the ok prompt type:
```
ok show-devs
```
The show-devs command lists the system devices. You should see the full path name of the qfe devices, similar to the example below:
```
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c30000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c20000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c10000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c00000
```
If your system is running the Solaris 2.4 operating environment, make sure that you have changed device names from SUNW,qfe to qfe. See "Changing the Device Names on Solaris 2.4 Systems" for more information.

Note -
You need to select only one of these qfe devices for booting.

At the ok prompt type:

ok boot (full path name of the 
qfe device)

Booting a Diskless Client System

In order to boot a diskless client with a local Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus 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 SBus 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 qfe line required by the adapter.
```
# grep 'SUNW,qfe qfe' 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.
```
SUNW,qfe qfe
```

Insert and mount the Sun Quad FastEthernet 2.0 CD-ROM.
- If your system is running Volume Manager, it should automatically mount the CD-ROM to the /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0 directory.
- If your system is not running Volume Manager, mount the CD-ROM as follows:
```
# mkdir -p /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0
# mount -F hsfs -r /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0
```

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.

For the Solaris 2.4 operating system, type:

# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0/Sol_2.4/SUNWqfed/reloc/kernel/drv/qfe \ 
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv

For the Solaris 2.5 operating system, type:

# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0/Sol_2.5/SUNWqfed/reloc/kernel/drv/qfe \ 
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv

For the Solaris 2.5.1 operating system, type:

# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0/Sol_2.5.1/SUNWqfed/reloc/kernel/drv/qfe \ 
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv

For the Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97 operating system, type:

# cp /cdrom/sun_quadfast_2_0/Sol_2.5.1_hw_497/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 "Host File Configuration" for more information.

Reboot your system.

See the section "Booting the System" for instructions on how to boot the client system.