SunPCi User's Guide

The SunPCi Window

The first thing you see when you start SunPCi software is the SunPCi window. This window provides the emulated DR-DOS command prompt, from which you run your DOS programs. If you have installed Windows 95/NT, you will see the DOS prompt displayed for a few seconds before your Windows program starts in the SunPCi window.

The following sections describe the menus at the top of the SunPCi window.

File Menu

The SunPCi File menu contains two commands: Reset PC and Exit.

Resetting a SunPCi window is the same as pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete on a PC (also called a warm boot). There are three primary reasons to reboot a SunPCi window:

To enable changes made to your system as a result of installing certain software packages, or modifying DOS files like AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS.

To enable a different SunPCi emulated hard drive (see Emulated Hard Drives for more information about this).

If either your keyboard or the application you are running in the SunPCi window is no longer responding.

The Exit command quits the SunPCi application and closes the SunPCi window.

When you choose the Reset PC command from SunPCi, a dialog box appears asking if you want to reset SunPCi. Click OK to dismiss the dialog box, and SunPCi reboots.

Options Menu

The Options menu lets you create and choose emulated hard disk drives (C: and D: drives). It also enables you to attach the mouse to SunPCi, which you will need to do after you have installed Windows 95, but before you install the SunPCi drivers.

Table 5–2 describes the disk-related commands in the Options menu. Complete instructions for choosing emulated drives is provided in Creating and Configuring a New C: or D: Drive.

Table 5–2 Options Menu Disk-Related Commands


Setting	Purpose
Attach a Hard Drive	Specify the emulated hard drive (`directory`/`file name`) you want to assign to drive C: or D:.
Create a New Hard Drive	Create the file you want to use as an emulated drive.
Attach CD-ROM	(Windows NT only) Allows you to attach a CD-ROM drive to your system. You would use this command if you have more than one CD-ROM drive installed in your workstation, or if you are not using Solaris Volume Manager (`vold`) to control your drives.
Eject CD	Ejects the CD from the CD-ROM drive. The keyboard shortcut is Meta-E.
Attach Mouse	Works the same as Meta-M; allows you to attach the mouse to the SunPCi window when you are in SMI mode. (This happens automatically after you install the SunPCi drivers.)