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Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide

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Contents

Preface

1. Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation

1.1 Safety Information

1.2 Planning the Installation

1.3 Unpacking the Workstation

1.3.1 Front Panel Overview

1.3.2 Back Panel Overview

1.4 Cabling the Workstation

1.5 Powering On the Workstation

1.6 Powering Off the Workstation

2. Software Installation

2.1 Preparing for Installation

2.1.1 Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk

2.1.2 Setting up the BIOS for Operating System Installation

2.1.2.1 Setting up the BIOS for Windows XP or Solaris 10

2.1.2.2 Setting up the BIOS for a Linux Operating System

2.2 Installing the Operating System

2.3 Running the up2date Utility

2.4 Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition

2.4.1 Installing Linux Operating System Drivers

2.4.2 Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers

2.4.3 Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers

2.4.3.1 Installing RAID Drivers Using XPReburn Script

2.4.3.2 Installing RAID Drivers Using a Boot Diskette

2.4.4 Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows XP

3. Setting Up the Preinstalled Software

3.1 Configuring Solaris 10 Operating System Software

3.1.1 Licensing Information

3.1.2 Disk Configuration

3.1.3 Installation Flowchart

3.1.4 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

3.2 Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software

3.2.1 Sun Studio Software

3.2.2 Sun Java Studio Creator

3.2.3 Sun Java Studio Enterprise

3.2.4 NetBeans IDE

3.3 Restoring and Backing Up Preinstalled Software

3.3.1 Restoring Preinstalled Software

3.3.2 Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software

3.3.3 Reinstalling Other Software

3.3.4 Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive

3.3.5 Hard Drive Mirroring

A. Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images

A.1 Creating a 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2) RIS Image

A.1.1 Creating the Windows XP SP2 32-bit Image on the RIS Server

A.1.2 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

A.1.3 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files

A.2 Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image

A.2.1 Installing Windows XP 64-bit onto the RIS Server

A.2.2 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

A.2.3 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files

A.3 Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation