Inside Solaris™ 9

Device Autoconfiguration

Autoconfiguration offers many advantages over the manual configuration method used in earlier versions of UNIX, in which device drivers were manually added to the kernel, the kernel was recompiled, and the system had to be restarted. Now, with autoconfiguration, the administrator simply connects the new device to the system and performs a reconfiguration startup.

Exercise 11.1 Performing a Reconfiguration Startup

1.	Create the /reconfigure file with the following command: touch /reconfigure The /reconfigure file causes the Solaris software to check for the presence of any newly installed devices the next time you turn on or start up your system.
2.	Shut down the system using the shutdown procedure described ...