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BOOTING THE NETBUILDER II CEC
20 S
YSTEM FROM THE NETWORK
Booting from a
TFTP/FTP Server
If you do not have a flash memory drive or want to manage the software for one
or more bridge/routers on a centralized server, you can boot from a Trivial File
Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server. Configuration files can be accessed from the same
workstation running a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server program.
Network boot is not supported by the NETBuilder II bridge/routers with the DPE
modules installed.
When you set up your NETBuilder bridge/router for network boot, you must
configure your bridge/router to boot from a particular server by specifying the IP
address of that server to the bridge/router. If you do not want to specify a
particular server, you may configure your NETBuilder II bridge/router to use BOOTP,
which discovers available TFTP servers on the local network by broadcasting
BOOTP request packets. For more information about BOOTP, refer to Reference for
NETBuilder Family Software.
Installing NETBuilder
Software on the
UNIX-based Network
Management Station
This section describes how to install NETBuilder II bridge/router software on a
UNIX-based network management station.
Prerequisites
To install the NETBuilder II bridge/router software image from a CD-ROM, the
CD-ROM drive must reside either locally on the network management station or
on another system on the network.
Before installing version 10.1 software from a CD-ROM, check that:
■ Your network management station is running Solaris 2.4 or 2.5x, SunOS 4.1.4,
HP-UX 9.0.5, 10.10 or 10.20, or IBM AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.4 or 4.2.
To verify the operating system environment you are running, enter:
uname -a
The version message will refer to Solaris 2.5x as SunOS 5.5.
■ You know the root password.
■ There is sufficient disk space on the network management station for the
amount of software you are installing.
Minimal disk storage requirements are dependent on the number of
NETBuilder systems being installed. For dual image support allocate 40 MB
for the NETBuilder Upgrade Management Utilities software image. For single
image support, allocate 4 MB for each NETBuilder II system.
■ The NETBuilder Upgrade Management Utilities released with this software
package have been installed on the network management station. Refer to
Upgrading NETBuilder Family Software for more information.