Preparing for Installation
1-5
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9. Power off your system, using standard shutdown procedures described in
Solaris 2.5 Handbook for SMCC Peripherals.
10. Install the SunSwift SBus Adapter as described in Chapter 2.
1.3.2 Using the SunSwift SBus Adapter and Existing 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.
If you want to use the SunSwift SBus Adapter Ethernet interface and your
existing Ethernet interface, you must perform the following tasks before
installing the SunSwift SBus Adapter.
Note – Make sure you have an Ethernet cable for each Ethernet interface.
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 add an entry 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.
# pkgadd -a none -d /cdrom/solaris_2_5_sparc/s0/Solaris_2.5 SUNWhmd SUNWhmdu
Enter path to package directory [?,q]
