Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide

Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide

816-1005-11

Contents

1. Setting Up the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation

Safety and Compliance Information

Planning the Installation Process

Unpacking the Workstation

Front Panel Overview

Back Panel Overview

Cabling the Workstation

Powering On the Workstation

Powering Off the Workstation

2. Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris Operating Environment Software

Planning the Installation Process for Solaris

Setting Up Your Operating Environment

Sun Install Check

Sun Blade 2500 Software Enhancement Script

Power Management Features

Putting the Workstation Into Low-Power Mode

Activating the Workstation From Low-Power Mode

3. Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled Software

Solaris Documentation

Sun Blade 2500 Hardware Documentation

Documentation on the Hard Drive

Documentation on CD

Getting Started With Mozilla

Solstice DiskSuite and Volume Manager

Getting Started With Solstice DiskSuite on Solaris 8

Getting Started With Volume Manager on Solaris 9

Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

GNOME Desktop Environment

Getting Started With GNOME

Getting Started With Apache Server

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Getting Started With Adobe Acrobat Reader

Sun ONE Grid Engine

Getting Started With StarOffice

Getting Started With Sun ONE Studio

Getting Started With Perl

Development Tools for the Java Platform

Getting Started With JMStudio

Getting Started With SunForum

Restoring Preinstalled Software

Restoring the Solaris Preinstalled Software

Restoring the Sun Blade 2500 Documentation

Reinstalling Other Software

Reinstalling StarOffice Software

Reinstalling Mozilla

Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive

Hard Drive Mirroring

4. Troubleshooting and Technical Support

Troubleshooting the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation

How to Get Technical Assistance

Copyright © 2004, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.