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Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Getting Started Guide

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Contents

Preface

CD Name Change

1. Setting Up the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation

Safety Information

Planning the Workstation Installation

Package Contents Inventory

Front and Back Panel Overview

Side Cover Overview

Keyboard and Mouse Overview

Cabling the Workstation

Powering On the Workstation

Powering Off the Workstation

2. Software Installation

Planning for the Operating System Installation

Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk

Setting Up the BIOS for Operating System Installation

Enabling RAID Support

Installing the Operating System

Running the up2date Utility

Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition

Installing Linux Operating System Drivers

Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers

Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers

Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images

Creating a 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2) RIS Image

Creating the Windows XP SP2 32-bit Image on the RIS Server

Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files

Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image

Installing Windows XP 64-bit onto the RIS Server

Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files

Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation

Configuring SLI Support

Enabling SLI for Windows XP

Enabling SLI for Linux

Downloading Sun N1 Grid Engine

3. Setting Up the Preinstalled Software

Configuring Solaris 10 Operating System Software

Licensing Information

Disk Configuration

Planning the Solaris Installation

Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software

Sun Studio 11 Software

Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 Update 8 Software

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Software

Net Beans IDE 4.1

Restoring and Backing Up Preinstalled Software

Restoring Preinstalled Software

Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software

Reinstalling Other Software

Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive