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Install the operational system Solaris8.0
(For SPARC platform)
into SPARC/CPU-54 board. |
| (1) |
Set the junpers on SPARC/CPU-54
board: |
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At first, we need to check the switch settings on
SPARC/CPU-54 board.
It provides 5 configuration switches: SW4,SW5,
SW6,SW7,and SW800. It
is recommanded to use the default settings. More details can be refered
to documentation
SPARC/CPU-54 Reference Guide on page: 2-12 to 2-15. |
| (2) |
Turn on the power and set OPENBOOT firmware: |
| When power is turned on, you can use ABORT buttom at the front panel on SPARC/CPU-54 board to get in OPENBOOT environment. And, The operation under OPENBOOT environment is listed as follows: (More details can be found on SPARC/CPU-54 Reference Guide on page: 4-6) | |
| Detect the attached hardware with the following command: | |
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# probe-all (Detect all devices) # probe-scsi (Detect SCSI devices) |
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| Get help information on-line: | |
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# help (Show the command format) # help [Variable] (Show specific command format) |
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| Show and set system environmental variables: | |
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# printenv (Show system environmental variables) # set [Variable] [Value] (Set specific system environmental variable) Therein, variables boot-device, diag-switch are most important options for boot up system. |
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| Boot up the system from device or net: | |
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# boot (Boot up system from the default device) # boot [Device] (Boot up system from specific device) # boot -r (Boot up system with automatic dectecting new devices) |
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| See the OPENBOOT version: | |
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# banner (Show up OPENBOOT version on EEPROM) |
| Whole OPENBOOT environmental variables is printed at OPENBOOT_printenv file. |
| (3) |
Boot from CDROM and install Solaris8.0/SPARC: |
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Let the system boot from CDROM and put Solaris 8.0 Disk(1/3)
into CDROM. It will install a small kernel at first. Then, we can use
interactive install environment to set parameters. After all, it will
install the operational system into hard disk with our settings. Our installation is recorded as following documentation Install_solaris8_records . |
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| Some net setting files on Solaris8 system: | |
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/etc/hostname.[ifname] (IP address from our machine) /etc/dhcp.[ifname] (DHCP setting) /etc/defaultrouter (the address of the default router) /etc/inet/hosts (the real link of /etc/hosts) /etc/inet/ipnodes (It contains the address under lpv4,lpv6) |
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| Set the state of the net manually: | |
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# ifconfig [Net-cards] [IP-address] netmask [Netmask-address] broadcast
[Getway-address] up (Show the command format) |
| Information about SPARC/CPU-54 board can be found from Force-Computer web. |
| Information about Solaris 8.0 software can be found from SUN Microsystems web. |