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Software Installation |
This chapter includes information about the following topics:
This chapter includes information about installing an operating system on your workstation, if you do not want to use the preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System.
Diagnostics software is also included on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental CD or Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD. Instructions for using the diagnostics software are provided in the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual, 819-3952.
FIGURE 2-1 shows the process flow for installing an operating system on your workstation.
If you do not have enough space on the boot partition to install an operating system, or would like to remove the preinstalled operating system, there is an Erase Primary Boot Hard Disk option on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD main menu, which enables you to erase other installed operating systems to make room for the new installation.
To erase the primary boot hard disk:
1. Back up all data that you want to save on the hard drive.
2. Insert the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the workstation.
3. When the main menu appears, select the following option from the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD main menu:
3. Erase Primary Boot Hard Disk
This option erases all partitions currently located on the primary hard drive, except for the diagnostic partition. The diagnostic partition, if it is present, remains untouched.
If you plan to install an operating system onto the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, you need to make sure that the BIOS is set up correctly before installing the software. See the section below that matches the operating system you plan to install.
If you are installing the Windows XP operating system, you will need to change the Installed O/S option to Windows.
1. Power on the workstation and press the F2 key at the Sun logo screen to enter the BIOS Setup menu.
3. Change the Installed O/S option to Windows.
4. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIOS.
The default for the Installed O/S option is Others. If the default has not been changed, you do not need to perform this setup for a Solaris or Linux operating system.
If the BIOS Installed O/S option has been changed from the default, you will need to do the following for Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9) or the Solaris 10 Operating System:
1. Power on the workstation and press the F2 key at the Sun logo screen to enter the BIOS Setup menu.
3. Change the Installed O/S option to Others.
4. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIOS Setup Utility.
The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation can accommodate up to four drives for the following Windows XP SP2 32-bit and Windows XP 64-bit RAID array configurations:
To enable RAID support for the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, you need to configure the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation BIOS and the NVRAID BIOS. This procedure also contains instructions for creating a diagnostic partition for a RAID configuration.
1. Configure RAID in the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation BIOS.
a. Reboot the workstation and press the F2 key at the Sun logo screen to enter the BIOS Setup menu.
b. Select the Advanced tab from the main menu.
d. Select NVRAID configuration.
e. Change the NVRAID Configuration to Enable.
f. Enable RAID on the channels displayed that have disks.
g. Press the F10 key to save your change to exit the BIOS.
2. Configure RAID in the NVRAID BIOS.
a. Press the F10 key during POST to enter the NVRAID Setup utility.
b. Select 0, 1, 0+1, Spanning, or RAID5 to create a RAID array.
During the configuration, a dialog box appears stating: "Would you like to clear the disk? Select Yes or No".
c. Choose No and press Ctrl-X to save your changes.
1. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD and reboot the workstation.
2. At the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD menu screen, select 1 to load the Pc-Check Diagnostics.
3. Once the diagnostics program is running, select Create a Diagnostic Partition, and click Yes.
If the operation is successful, the diagnostic partition for the RAID configuration is created.
If you receive an error message stating "Unknown Partition on Disk", go to Step 4.
4. Erase the primary boot partition.
a. Exit the diagnostics program and reboot the workstation with the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD inserted.
b. At the menu screen, select 3 to run the Erase Primary Boot Hard Disk utility.
This utility erases all partitions on the disk.
c. Return to Step 2 above.
Your Sun Ultra 40 Workstation has the Solaris 10 Operating System preinstalled. You can also choose to install one of the other supported operating systems for the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation.
Note - For best results, make sure to run the latest operating system (OS) updates. Some OS installations might not run properly if the latest updates are not installed. |
The following additional systems are supported for the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation:
Instructions for installing these operating systems are packaged in the media sets that are provided with the operating system software.
If you are installing Windows XP software, and you plan to set up a RAID configuration on your workstation, you will need to install the RAID drivers in conjunction with installing Windows XP. See Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers and Enabling RAID Support.
If you are installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux software, run the up2date utility after installing the operating system and before installing the video drivers from the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD.
Note - If you have already installed the NVIDIA drivers, you must reinstall them after running up2date, because the kernel is updated. |
After installing the operating system, run the installation script provided on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD to install the drivers that correspond to your operating system.
The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD is included with your Sun Ultra 40 Workstation.
You also need to run the installation script to mount the diagnostic partition for all supported operating systems if you have created a new diagnostic partition. (See the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual, 819-3952, for information about how to create a diagnostic partition.) The diagnostic partition cannot be mounted on a workstation running Windows XP software.
This section covers the following topics:
To install the video and chipset drivers and mount the diagnostic partition when running a Linux operating system:
1. Log in to the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation as superuser.
2. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive and type:
Where /mountpoint is the directory the CD is mounted to and operating_system is the type of Linux installed on the workstation (red_hat or suse).
3. If the CD does not automount, open a terminal window and mount the CD by typing the following command:
Where/mountpoint is the appropriate mount point for the OS and optical drive type.
4. Change to the /mountpoint/drivers/linux/operating_system directory.
Where /mountpoint is the directory that the CD is mounted to and operating_system is the type of Linux installed on the workstation (red_hat or suse)
5. Run the installation script by typing the following command:
This script does not execute if the X server is running.
6. If the script exits and you receive an error message, perform the following steps to disable the X server:
a. Type the following at the system prompt:
7. Eject the CD after the driver installation is complete.
9. To enable SLI support, follow the instructions in Configuring SLI Support.
To install the drivers and mount the diagnostic partition when running the Solaris 10 Operating System (if the Solaris Operating System is not preinstalled):
1. Log in to the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation as superuser.
2. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive.
The CD is automounted by the Solaris 10 Operating System.
3. Change to the /cdrom/cdrom0/drivers/sx86 directory by typing the following command:
4. Run the install script by typing the following command:
The video drivers are now installed and the diagnostic partition is now mounted.
The script prompts the user to reboot the system for changes to take effect.
7. When prompted for networking information on your system, enter the networking information for your server.
The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD contains NVRAID, NVIDIA display, and NVIDIA chipset drivers for Windows XP. If you are installing NVRAID drivers, you will need to use the XpReburn script to create a new Windows XP CD containing the necessary drivers or create a boot diskette to install the drivers before installing the Windows XP operating system.
The order of Windows XP driver installation is as follows:
1. If you plan to use the workstation RAID functionality, install the NVRAID drivers before installing the operating system by using one of the following methods:
2. Install the operating system.
3. Using the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD, install the display and chipset drivers as described in Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows XP.
4. If necessary, install the Atmel TPM and RealTek audio drivers as described in Installing Atmel TPM and RealTek Audio Drivers.
5. If necessary, enable SLI support. See Configuring SLI Support.
Note - The Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD does not mount the diagnostic partition for Windows XP software. |
The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD contains a script that enables you to create a new Windows XP CD with the needed RAID drivers. After the new CD is created, you can boot the CD and install Windows XP normally. This new CD automatically installs the drivers, making it unnecessary to use a USB diskette drive and to install the NVRAID drivers.
For specific and current information about the XpReburn script, see the description at the top of the script which is located in /drivers/utilities/XpReburn on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD.
To install Windows XP using a RAID configuration, you need the following:
To create a Windows XP CD with the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation drivers:
1. On a system Solaris x86, Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition), or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4, or SLES 9 software, insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD.
2. As superuser, create a temporary directory with at least 1.2 Gbytes of space.
3. Copy the XpReburn_version.zip file to that directory.
Where version is the current version of XpReburn.
4. Eject the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD and insert your retail Windows XP 32 Professional CD.
5. Unzip the XpReburn_version.zip file.
The script displays the driver files it expects to be located in the current directory. When all four driver files have been downloaded into that directory, the script creates a new ISO image and then automatically burns that ISO image onto a CD if the system has a CD burner.
7. After the CD has been created, install Windows XP Professional software on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation.
8. After the OS installation is complete, install the NVDIA display drivers described in Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows XP.
This section explains how to create a boot diskette for the NVIDIA RAID drivers using the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD, and how to install the drivers onto your workstation.
To install the NVIDIA RAID drivers using a boot diskette, you will need the following:
This section contains the following subsections:
1. On a system running Microsoft Windows software, insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD.
2. Change to the appropriate directory on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD by typing the following:
3. Insert a blank diskette into the workstation.
4. Select all files in the directory and copy them to the diskette drive (a:).
To install Windows XP with the NVIDIA RAID drivers on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation:
1. Ensure that the system BIOS and NVIDIA BIOS is configured for RAID operation. See Enabling RAID Support.
2. Attach a USB diskette drive to the workstation.
3. Insert a Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit installation CD into the DVD drive.
4. Press the F6 key to install the third-party RAID driver.
5. Press the S key and the Enter key to specify additional drivers and insert the diskette created in Creating a Boot Diskette for NVIDIA RAID Drivers.
6. Select the NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller.
7. Press the S key and the Enter key to specify additional drivers.
8. Select the NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER.
9. Press the Enter key to continue the Windows XP installation.
10. After the OS installation is complete, install the NVDIA display and chipset drivers as described in Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows XP.
Note - If you have created a Windows XP CD containing NVRAID drivers using the XpReburn option, you do not need to install the chipset drivers, you need to install only the display drivers. |
To install the NVIDIA display and chipset drivers after installing Windows XP, do the following:
1. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive.
2. (If necessary) Install the chipset drivers:
a. Change to the appropriate directory on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD by typing the following command:
b. Double-click the executable file.
c. Follow the instructions in the installation software.
3. Install the display drivers:
a. Change to the appropriate directory on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD by typing the following command:
b. Double-click the executable file.
c. Follow the instructions in the installation software.
4. Eject the CD from the workstation.
If you want for Trusted Platform Computing (TPM) 1.2 and RealTek digital audio (SPDIF) are included on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD. If you want to use these features, you will need to install the drivers.
Note - If the Atmel TPM driver is not installed, a yellow bang will appear in the device manager. |
1. Insert the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive.
2. Change to the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD directory by typing the following:
3. Double click on the Atmel_TPM_Driver_X.X.X.XX.msi icon and follow the instructions in the wizard to install the driver.
1. Remove the currently installed NVIDIA sound drivers if installed
These drivers are installed as part of the NVIDIA chipset pack installation.
2. Insert the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive.
3. Go to the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD directory by typing the following
4. Unzip the file and double click on the executable.
5. Follow the instructions in the wizard to install the driver.
This section contains the instructions for creating Sun Ultra 40 Workstation specific images on the Remote Installation Service (RIS) server for the following operating systems:
Note - For best results, once created you can install the images on a client workstation. |
This section covers the following topics:
This section tells you how to create a Windows XP 32-bit image on a RIS server and then add platform specific drivers to the image. All drivers for this procedure are located on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD, version 1.2 or later.
Note - Before using this procedure, you must install the RIS onto a Windows 2003 server. See the following URL for complete instructions on how to install the RIS.
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To copy Windows XP SP2 32-bit onto the RIS server, do the following steps. Click Next or Finished in each screen to advance to the next screen.
1. Insert the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD into the RIS server's CDROM drive.
2. In the Start menu, select Run.
3. To start the RIS setup program, type the following command:
Note - In all commands, c:\ is shown as the DOS command prompt. |
4. In the "Welcome to the Remote Installation Services Setup Wizard" screen, click Next.
5. In the "Remote Installation Services Options" screen, choose "Add a new OS image to this remote installation server".
6. In the Installation Source Files Location screen, choose the CDROM drive with the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD.
7. In the "Windows Installation Image Folder Name" screen, type a descriptive name for the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD image you are creating. For example:
8. In the "Friendly Description and Help Text" screen, type a description and help text (for future end-user reference).
9. In the "Previous Client Installation Screens Found" screen, choose "Use the old client installation screens".
10. In the "Review Settings" screen, verify your settings.
11. After the image installs to the server, click Done.
To add the NVIDIA Ethernet drivers to the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD image on the RIS server, do the following steps.
1. Insert the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the RIS server's CDROM drive.
2. Type the commands below to accomplish the following actions:
Where cdrom_drive is the CDROM drive on the RIS server, image_dir is the image directory, and ris_partition is the drive where the RIS image is stored on the RIS server.
To modify settings files, create driver directories, and copy drivers to their directories in the Windows XP SP2 32-bit image on the RIS server, do the following steps.
The ristndrd.sif file is located in the following directory on the RIS server:
ris_partition:\RemoteInstall\Setup\Englsh\Images\image_dir\i386\templates
1. Change these entries in the ristndrd.sif file to read as follows:
2. Remove the following entry from the ristndrd.sif file:
3. Add the following entries to the ristndrd.sif file:
OemPnPDriversPath = "\drivers\audio;\drivers\nic;\drivers\sata_ide;\drivers\smbus" "Nvidia RAID CLASS DRIVER (required)"="OEM" "Nvidia nForce Storage Controller (required)"="OEM" |
4. To create the $oem$ directory for the RIS image, type the following command:
The $oem$ directory will have a subdirectory tree structure with the following directory names:
5. To copy Windows XP 32-bit driver files from the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD to the $oem$ directory tree, type the following commands.
The drivers are located in the following directory on Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD.
cdrom_drive:\drivers\windows\xp32\chipset\
a. To copy the chipset zip package to the RIS server, type the following command:
b. To unzip the package, type the following command:
6. To copy the chipset drivers to the proper directories, type the following commands:
7. The txtsetup.oem file is located in the following directory.
ris_partition:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\image_dir\$oem$\textmode\
Add a semicolon to the beginning of each line for files that are of type *.dll in the [Files.scsi.RAIDClASS] and [Files.scsi.BUSDRV] sections.
8. To enable the RIS server to distribute the RIS image you created, type the following commands:
This section tells you how to create a Windows XP 64-bit image on a RIS server and then add platform specific drivers to the image. All drivers for this procedure located on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD, version 1.2 or later.
Note - Before using this procedure, you must install RIS onto a Windows 2003 server. See the following URL for complete instructions on how to install the RIS.
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To copy the Windows XP 64-bit CD onto the RIS server, do the following steps. Click Next or Finished in each screen to advance to the next screen.
1. Insert the Windows XP 64-bit CD into the RIS server's CDROM drive.
2. In the Start menu, select Run.
3. To start the RIS setup program, type the following command:
Note - In all commands, c:\ is shown as the DOS command prompt. |
4. In the "Welcome to the Remote Installation Services Setup Wizard" screen, click Next.
5. In the "Remote Installation Services Options" screen, choose "Add a new OS image to this remote installation server".
6. In the "Installation Source Files Location" screen, choose the CDROM drive with the Windows XP 64-bit CD.
7. In the "Windows Installation Image Folder Name" screen, type a descriptive name for the Windows XP 64-bit CD image you are creating. For example:
8. In the "Friendly Description and Help Text" screen, type a description and help text (for future end-user reference).
9. In the "Previous Client Installation Screens Found" screen, choose "Use the new client installation screens, and overwrite the old ones".
10. In the "Review Settings" screen, verify your settings.
11. After the image installs to the server, click Done.
To add the NVIDIA Ethernet drivers to the Windows XP 64-bit CD image on the RIS server, do the following steps.
1. Insert the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD into the RIS server's CDROM drive.
2. Type the commands below to accomplish the following actions.
Where cdrom_drive is the CDROM drive on the RIS server, image_dir is the image directory, and ris_partition is the drive where the RIS image is stored on the RIS server.
To modify settings files, create driver directories, and copy drivers to their directories in the Windows XP 64-bit image on the RIS server, do the following steps.
The ristndrd.sif file is located in the following directory on the RIS server:
ris_partition:\RemoteInstall\Setup\Englsh\Images\image_dir\i386\templates
1. Change these entries in the ristndrd.sif file to read as follows:
2. Remove the following entry from the ristndrd.sif file:
3. Add the following entries to the ristndrd.sif file:
OemPnPDriversPath = "\drivers\audio;\drivers\nic;\drivers\sata_ide;\drivers\smbus" "Nvidia RAID CLASS DRIVER (required)"="OEM" "Nvidia nForce Storage Controller (required)"="OEM" |
4. To create the $oem$ directory for the RIS image, type the following command:
The $oem$ directory will have a subdirectory tree structure with the following directory names:
5. To copy Windows XP 64-bit driver files into the $oem$ directory tree, type the following commands.
The drivers are located in the following directory on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD:
cdrom_drive:\drivers\windows\xp64\chipset\
a. To copy the zip package to the RIS server, type the following command:
b. To unzip the package, type the following command:
6. To copy the driver files to the proper directories, type the following commands:
7. The txtsetup.oem file is located in the following directory.
ris_partition:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\image_dir\$oem$\textmode\
Add a semicolon to the beginning of each line for files that are of type *.dll in the [Files.scsi.RAIDClASS] and [Files.scsi.BUSDRV] sections.
8. To enable the RIS server to distribute the RIS image you created, type the following commands:
This section tells you how to install a RIS image onto a client workstation using PXE boot.
1. Either power on or reboot the workstation.
2. During POST, press the F12 key to enter PXE.
The workstation looks for the RIS server on the network.
3. Type your name and password when the Windows RIS install screen appears.
4. Choose the RIS image to install.
Once selected, the OS installation begins and automatically continues until it completes.
Refer to www.slizone.com for more information on SLI and the latest supported drivers.
NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) is a high-performance technology that intelligently combines and scales graphics performance and visual quality by having multiple NVIDIA GPU's in a single system. SLI technology can scale both geometry and fill rate performance for two GPU's.
In order to enable SLI functionality, you need two of same cards installed. The following graphics cards are supported for Sun Ultra 40 Workstation SLI operation:
If these cards are already installed in your workstation, the SLI connector will be already installed. If you still need to install one or both cards, follow the instructions in the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual.
1. Install the NVIDIA graphics driver located on the Supplemental or Tools and Drivers CD if it is not previously installed.
See Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers.
2. Right click on the desktop or click on the NVIDIA setting icon located on the taskbar and select: nvidia display -> GDM-5510.
3. Select SLI-Multi GPU and add a checkmark next to enable SLI multi-GPU.
A message will appear stating SLI is enabled and that a reboot is required.
To enable SLI for Linux operating systems:
1. Log in to the workstation as root (superuser).
2. Install the Linux display drivers, if you have not already done so.
See Installing Linux Operating System Drivers.
This will modify the X configuration file automatically
Refer to the readme for more information on configuring the different operation modes in either of the following to locations:
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/readme.txt or
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