Booting From The Network On Solaris 2.4 Systems - Sun Microsystems Quad FastEthernet Installation And User Manual

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5. Copy the hme driver from the CD-ROM to the client's root partition.
If you are running Volume Manager, you can copy the driver as follows:
# cp \
/cdrom/sun_quadfast_1_0/Sol_2.4/SUNWhmdl/reloc/kernel/drv/hme \
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv
If you are not running Volume Manager, and you have mounted the
CD-ROM as described in "Mounting the CD-ROM" on page 12, copy the
driver as follows:
# cp /cdrom/Sol_2.4/SUNWhmdl/reloc/kernel/drv/hme \
DIR/export/exec/kvm/<archive_of_arch>/kernel/drv
6. Unmount and eject the CD-ROM as follows:
# cd /
# umount /cdrom
# eject cdrom
7. Create a hostname.hme<num> file for the client in the /etc directory of
the client's root partition.
See "Host File Configuration" on page 19 for more information.
Proceed to the next section, "Booting From the Network on Solaris 2.4
Systems" on page 23, for the client system.

Booting From the Network on Solaris 2.4 Systems

The device name of newer SBus cards for Solaris 2.5 is identified by a SUNW,
prefix. If your system is running Solaris 2.4, it will not recognize these devices.
Perform the following tasks to set up your system so the device driver can
recognize the Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus Adapter.
Installing the Sun QuadFastEthernet Driver Software
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