The Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Product Notes (Silver), 817-5121-14, contain late-breaking information about changes to the product and to the documentation supporting the product that became known after the documentation set was published.

This product note includes:

• Hardware Information
• Software and Firmware Information
• Documentation Information

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Hardware Information

Hardware, Software, and Firmware Differences Between the Sun Blade 2500 (Red) and the Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) Workstations

TABLE 1 summarizes the major hardware, software, and firmware differences between Sun Blade 2500 (Red) and Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstations.

Resetting the Power Supply

In normal operation, when power to the power supply is briefly interrupted and then restored, the workstation automatically powers on without pressing the Power button.

If your workstation fails to automatically power on after a power interruption:

1. Disconnect the workstation power cord from the AC outlet for approximately one minute.

2. Reconnect the power cord.

In a few seconds your workstation automatically powers on.

Smart Card Reader

If you are using GNOME, the smart card reader might not operate after the smart card has been removed. To prevent this problem from occurring, log out before you remove the smart card from the reader.

Mixing DIMM Speeds

The Sun Blade 2500 workstation supports DDR-1 SDRAM DIMMs. The speed (frequency) of these DIMMs can be either 266 MHz or 333 MHz. OpenBoot PROM version 4.16.3 supports mixing of identical 266 MHz and 333 MHz speed DIMMs in the same bank.

Memory Interleaving and Mixing DIMM Speeds

The UltraSPARC^® IIIi processor supports the bank, rank, DIMM, and XOR interleaving of identical DIMMs of the same speed in the same bank.

DVD-ROM and CD-RW

Some workstations might not copy information from the original master to a new optical disk. This usually occurs when the drive powers down with its optical drive tray open. If this occurs:

1. Reinsert the master disc into the tray.

2. Press the Open/Close button to close the drive.

The copy process restarts.

OpenBoot PROM Memory Resource Leak

Your workstation may hang if interrupt commands such as Stop-A, Stop-N, or
boot -h are repeatedly used. If your system hangs, power cycle your workstation.

Conditions for Installing Optional PCI Cards

Table 16-2 in Chapter 16 of the Sun Blade 2500 Service, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Manual, (817-5117) incorrectly states the installation conditions for single- and dual-channel SCSI host adapters. TABLE 2 correctly states the correct conditions for installing single- and dual-channel SCSI host adapters.

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Software and Firmware Information

Booting From a DHCP Server

1. Configure your DHCP boot server to support the following vendor client class: SUNW.Sun-Blade-2500-S

The period (.) is intentional.

2. To boot your Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstation from a DHCP boot server, type:

ok boot net:dhcp

Software Optimization

Software for the Sun Blade 2500 workstation is continuously improved throughout the life cycle of the product. TABLE 3 lists the latest patches as of October 2006 for the Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstation.

Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 Preinstalled Image Available

Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstations now come preinstalled with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, or Solaris 8 and Solaris 10. For information about Solaris 8, 9, or 10 preinstalled software, refer to TABLE 4.

SunVTS

Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstations come preinstalled with SunVTS 5.1 PS5+ or SunVTS 5.1 PS9. If the hard disk image is erased from your workstation's drive and you want to use SunVTS go to:

http://www.sun.com/oem/vts/

Download and install SunVTS 5.1 PS9.

SunVTS and False Test Failures

When running SunVTS on a workstation containing three graphics cards with two or more Sun XVR-100 graphics accelerators installed, set the group concurrency for the graphics test to 1. This will prevent false pfbtest failures.

To set group concurrency, do the following:

1. From within SunVTS, right-click on the graphics test field.

2. Select Scheduled Options.

3. Set Group Concurrency to 1.

Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

Your workstation has a dual-boot image. During system set up you can choose to complete configuration of the preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System or you can choose to install another operating system such as Solaris 8.

To complete installation of the preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System, do the following:

1. If necessary, power on the workstation.

Allow the workstation to boot until FIGURE 1 is displayed.

FIGURE 1 Choosing the Operating System

2. Type 10 or press Return.

3. Type y to confirm your selection of Solaris 10 (FIGURE 2).

FIGURE 2 Confirming Solaris 10 Selection

4. Review the Binary Code License Agreement for the Sun Blade W1500s/2500s workstation, then type q to skip to: Do you accept this licensing agreement (FIGURE 3).

FIGURE 3 Binary Code License Agreement

5. Type accept (FIGURE 3).

6. Collect the following information about your workstation and its network or non-network configuration.

For a networked system collect the following information:

• Language you intend to use on the system
• Whether to enable DHCP for automatic configuration in a TCP/IP environment
• Host name of the system that you are installing
• Host IP address
• Network mask of your Subnet (Netmask)
• Enable IPv6 on this network
• Detect default router
• Whether to use Kerberos security
• Locales that you intend to use on the system
• Type of name service used (for example, DNS, NIS, or NIS+, LDAP, or none)
• Domain name
• Host name of the name server
• Host name and IP address of the name server
• Default Time Zone
• Date and Time
• Root password

For a non networked system, collect the following information:

• Host name of the system that you are installing
• Language you intend to use on the system
• Local where you plan to use the system

7. Select a language by typing (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9).

The Solaris installer can be run in English or any of the following languages (FIGURE 4).

FIGURE 4 Select a Language

After a few seconds the Welcome screen appears (FIGURE 5).

Wait while system information is gathered.

FIGURE 5 Welcome Screen

8. Select the Network or Non-networked option for your workstation (FIGURE 6).

In this example, Network is selected.

FIGURE 6 Network Connectivity

9. Select yes to use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to configure the network interface or no not to use DHCP to configure the network interface.

In this example no was selected.

10. Select a host name for your workstation.

11. Enter the IP address for this workstation.

12. Specify the network mask of your subnet.

If you are not using DHCP you will need to specify the network mask.

13. Select yes to enable IPv6 protocol on this workstation or no not to enable IPv6 protocol on this workstation.

14. Select specify one, detect one, or none to specify a default route IP address or let the Solaris installation program find one for the ICMP router.

15. Select yes to configure Kerberos security on this workstation or no not to configure Kerberos security.

16. Select NIS+, NIS, DNS, LDAP, or None as the name server used on this workstation.

17. Specify the domain where this workstation resides.

Enter the name completely and correctly with all punctuation.

18. Specify Find one to find the name server for this workstation or Specify one to specify a specific name server for this workstation.

19. Enter the host name and IP address of your name server.

20. Specify the Time zone by geographic region, offset from GMT, or time zone file.

21. Specify the continent and country that your workstation resides in.

22. Specify the current date and time.

23. Specify an alphanumeric password for your workstation.

24. Confirm your workstation's selection summary (FIGURE 7).

FIGURE 7 Selection Summary

25. Wait while the workstation is rebooted and the system is configured (FIGURE 8).

FIGURE 8 Solaris 10 Welcome Screen

26. Enter your user name to begin using Solaris 10 software on your workstation.

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Documentation Information

This section describes changes to the Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) documentation.

SunVTS Software

Refer to Chapter 9, "Installing SunVTS," in the Sun Blade 2500 Service, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Manual (Silver), 817-5117.

The correct version of SunVTS software installed on the Sun Blade 2500 (Silver) workstation is SunVTS 5.1 PS5+, or SunVTS 5.1 PS9, or a subsequent compatible version, not Sun VTS 5.1 PS5.

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