Where to Go from Here

After you have installed the ChorusOS 4.0 product on your host workstation and prepared a boot server that can download system images to the target system, proceed to the appropriate document in the ChorusOS 4.0 Target Family Documentation Collection. There you will find instructions on how to build a system image on your host workstation that you can place on the boot server and download to the ChorusOS target system at boot time.

Once you have managed to boot the target system, you can configure and build a system image that supports exactly what you need to develop applications. Introducing ChorusOS 4.0 presents the features and components of ChorusOS systems. It explains how to use ChorusOS 4.0 and how to create an application that runs on a ChorusOS system. It also explains how to debug the system. The XRAY Debugger documentation from Mentor Graphics explains how to debug a ChorusOS application. XRAY is the reference debugger for use with ChorusOS systems.

To port the ChorusOS 4.0 product to your specific hardware. The ChorusOS 4.0 Porting Guide explains how to port the ChorusOS system to another target board. If you have developed new drivers for your hardware, the ChorusOS 4.0 Device Driver Framework Guide describes the device driver architecture of the ChorusOS system and explains how to add a new driver.

For system adminstration tasks the ChorusOS 4.0 File Systems User's Guide describes how to use the file systems supported by the ChorusOS 4.0 product, including NFS and the ChorusOS 4.0 Network Administration Guide details how to use the networking capabilities of the ChorusOS 4.0 product.

For those designing and developing highly available applications, the ChorusOS 4.0 Hot Restart Guide describes how to develop applications to use the hot restart functionality of the ChorusOS 4.0 product.

Finally, the ChorusOS 4.0 Reference Manual Collection contains all of the on-line manual pages for the ChorusOS 4.0 product.