Specifications

Booting and Installing an Operating System 3-11
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 3.1.
3.
Enter the show device command
➊ to determine the unit number of the
drive for your device.
4.
Enter the following commands. Example 3–2 assumes you are booting from
ewa0. If you are booting from another drive, enter that device name
instead.
P00>>> set ewa0_protocols bootp
P00>>> set ewa0_inet_init bootp
The first command
➋ enables the bootp network protocol for booting over
the Ethernet controller. The second command
➌ sets the internal Internet
database to initialize from the network server through the bootp protocol.
5.
Enter the boot command
➍ and command-line parameters (if you have not
set the associated environment variables). In Example 3–2 the boot
command sets the system to boot automatically from ewa0 and specifies a
full memory dump (Da) in case of a system shutdown.
For complete instructions on booting UNIX over the network, see the Tru64
UNIX Installation Guide.