How To Select The Boot Device - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

b. To install the operating system onto the server's internal system hard drive,
enter:
ok boot net - install
Both commands boot the system, and the system console displays the system
prompt.
What Next
If you want to use this Ethernet interface as the default boot device, you must
permanently change the value of the boot-device parameter. For more
information, see:
4 "How to Select the Boot Device" on page 207
4 OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual in the Solaris System Administrator
AnswerBook for your specific Solaris release

How to Select the Boot Device

Before You Begin
Before you can select a boot device, you must complete the installation procedure;
see:
4 "How to Install the Enterprise 250 Server" on page 44
Specifically, you must perform the following tasks:
4 Set up a system console; see "About Setting Up a Console" on page 49
4 Power on the system; see "How to Power On the System" on page 56
If you want to boot across a network interface, then you must also perform the
following tasks:
4 Configure the Ethernet port; see "How to Configure the Standard Ethernet
Interface" on page 196
4 Attach the Ethernet port to a network; see "How to Attach a Twisted-Pair
Ethernet (TPE) Cable" on page 200 or "How to Attach an MII Ethernet
Transceiver" on page 202
The device that is used to boot the system is determined by the setting of an
OpenBoot firmware configuration parameter called boot-device. The default
setting of this parameter is disk net. Because of this setting, the firmware first
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