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Booting and Installing an Operating System 6-19
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 6.2.
3. Enter the show device command
to determine the unit number of the
drive for your device.
4. Enter the following commands. Example 6–4 assumes you are booting from
eia0. If you are booting from another drive, enter that device name instead.
P00>>> set eia0_protocols bootp
P00>>> set eia0_inet_init bootp
The first command
enables the bootp network protocol for booting over
the Ethernet controller. The second command
sets the internal Internet
database to initialize from the network server through the bootp protocol.
5. Enter the boot command
and command-line parameters (if you have not
set the associated environment variables). In Example 6–4 the boot
command sets the system to boot automatically from eia0.
For complete instructions on booting Tru64 UNIX over the network, see the
Tru64 UNIX Installation Guide.