Installing Diskless Clients; Creating A Boot Server For Diskless Clients - Sun Microsystems Netra CP3060 User Manual

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2. Check the /etc/system file to see if the mandatory line is present.
TABLE 3-1
# more /etc/system
*ident
*
* SYSTEM SPECIFICATION FILE
.
.
.
set pcie:pcie_aer_ce_mask=0x1
.
3. If the entry is not there, add it.
Use an editor to edit the /etc/system file and add the entry.
4. Reboot the server.
3.4

Installing Diskless Clients

The following procedures describe how to create a boot server for diskless clients
and how to add new diskless clients to the patched boot server. For additional
instructions on installing diskless clients, refer to the appropriate Solaris
Documentation Collection at the Sun Documentation web site at:
http://www.sun.com/documentation
You must have a superuser password on your diskless server to perform the
following tasks.
3.4.1

Creating a Boot Server for Diskless Clients

Note – This procedure sets up a boot server by starting the operating environment
services required for diskless clients. Once you have set up the boot server, see
Section 3.4.2, "Adding a Diskless Client" on page 3-5
diskless clients to the boot server.
1. Verify that the IP addresses for all other network interfaces on the boot server
have corresponding hostnames in the hosts database.
"@(#)system
1.18 05/06/27 SMI" /* SVR4 1.5 */
for instructions on adding
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