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1-4 SunSwift SBus Adapter Installation and User’s Guide—December 1995
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1.3.1 Using the SunSwift SBus Adapter as Your Only Ethernet Interface
You will be installing software from the Solaris 2.5 CD-ROM. Make sure the
Solaris 2.5 CD-ROM is properly placed in the CD-ROM drive before
performing the following tasks.
1. As superuser, add the SUNWhmd and SUNWhmdu packages to your system:
2. For both packages, answer / to the following question:
You will receive a message stating the process was successful.
3. Assign an IP address and host name for the SunSwift SBus Adapter
Ethernet channel.
For example, 123.456.78.90 (IP address); zardoz (host name).
4. Edit the /etc/hosts file and remove your existing Ethernet interface’s
IP address and host name.
5. Add an entry to the /etc/hosts file containing the new IP address and
host name for the selected hme channel.
This is the IP address and host name that you assigned in step 3.
6. Remove your existing Ethernet interface’s /etc/hostname.xx
<num>
file
from your system.
7. Create a /etc/hostname.hme
<num>
file for the Ethernet channel you are
planning to use for the SunSwift SBus Adapter.
• hostname is literal. Type hostname.
•
num
is the instance number of the SBus card installation. Use 0 for the first
SunSwift SBus Adapter installation, 1 for the second instance, and so on.
8. In this file, add a line containing just the host name that you assigned for
the SunSwift SBus Adapter. For example, if your host name is zardoz,
enter just this word.
# pkgadd -a none -d /cdrom/solaris_2_5_sparc/s0/Solaris_2.5 SUNWhmd SUNWhmdu
Enter path to package directory [?,q]