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Setting Up Servers and Diskless Clients 127
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▼ To Set Up a Server
Follow these steps to set up a server to boot diskless clients across an FDDI
connection:
1. Install and configure the relevant SunOS operating system on the server
so that it can be exported.
See the Solaris System Configuration and Installation Guide for detailed
instructions on how to set up an operating system for diskless clients.
2. Check that you have sufficient space in the /export/root,
/export/swap, and /export/exec file systems.
3. Install and configure the SunFDDI/P driver and utilities on the server.
4. Ensure that you have an entry for the sysadmin group (with a GID of 14)
in the group table /etc/group.
You need this entry to use admintool to administer remote machines. See
Solaris 2.5 Setting up User Accounts, Printers, and Mail.
Note – If you are running NIS on your server, you can use admintool to
update the local /etc/hosts and /etc/ethers files. You must merge these
files manually into the NIS maps afterwards.
▼ To Introduce Diskless Clients to a Server
Before you can introduce a diskless client to the network you need to know its
host name, IP address and Ethernet address. The six-byte Ethernet address is
displayed when the machine is switched on. (Note that the Ethernet address of
the client is the MAC address stored in NVRAM on its motherboard.)
1. Log in as a member of the sysadmin group.
You must log in as a member of the sysadmin group to administer remote
machines. Do not log in as root or become superuser.
2. Start admintool by typing:
% /usr/bin/admintool &