Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B Owner's Manual page 98

Systems running Tru64 UNIX support network adapters, designated ew*0 or
ei*0. The asterisk stands for the adapter ID (a, b, c, and so on).
1. Power up the system. The system stops at the SRM console prompt,
P00>>>.
2. Set boot environment variables, if desired. See Section 3.1.
3. Enter the show device command
drive for your device.
4. Enter the following commands. Example 3–2 assumes you are booting from
ewa0. If you are booting from another drive, enter that device name in-
stead.
P00>>> set ewa0_protocols bootp
P00>>> set ewa0_inet_init bootp
The first command
the Ethernet controller. The second command
database to initialize from the network server through the bootp protocol.
5. Enter the boot command
set the associated environment variables). In Example 3–2 the boot com-
mand sets the system to boot automatically from ewa0 and specifies a full
memory dump (Da) in case of a system shutdown.
For complete instructions on booting Tru64 UNIX over the network, see the
Tru64 UNIX Installation Guide.
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to determine the unit number of the
enables the bootp network protocol for booting over
and command-line parameters (if you have not
sets the internal Internet