Tip – The next events occur very quickly; therefore, focused attention is needed for the following
steps. Watch carefully for these messages, as they appear on the screen for a brief time. You
might want to enlarge the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.
As the system boots, do oneof the followingto starta network boot:
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When prompted, press F12 to boot from therst network boot devicefound.
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When prompted, press F8 to display the bootmenu and specify the networkboot device.
Tip – On a Sun Blade server module, you can determine the PXE interface boot device by (1)
matching the PXE:Slot# (listed on the Please Select Boot Device menu) with the physical
NEM or EM slot number label on the chassis, and (2) matching the F# (listed on the Please
Select Boot Device menu) with the physical NIC port number label on the NEM (ports 0.0 to
9.0 and 0.1 to 9.1) or EM (ports 0 or port 1).
After the network boot device is specied, the system attempts to get the IP address from the
DHCP PXE boot server. After the PXE server is found, the PXE boot prompt appears.
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