Boot Camp: Week 1: Monday part of Bootcamp Week 1 by James Buszard-Welcher

Monday

Introduction Slides

Hardware Install Lab

• Check for required components and unpack
• Power up, verify memory initialization, disk, monitor, etc. then power off, unplug, disconnect
• Read DIMM install guide, then install DIMMs. NOTE the caution to make sure the DIMMs are firmly, securely, PROPERLY seated.
• Read p. 19 of Sun Ultra 5/10 HDD install guide, then install hard disk
  • Use coin to pop of front panel, then pull open "gate"
  • verify 'cable select' on disk
  • install on 'slide'
  • connect IDE cable and power connector
• NOTE: two IDE controllers, up to two devices per controller, these control device name to operating system. Useful to understand in event of disk crash! Which disk is dead?
• NOTE: SCSI is different but worth knowing about as well!
• plug in power, monitor, keyboard and boot BEFORE putting case back on... in case you need to adjust anything.
• put case back on
• Make sure system boots preinstalled OS. Answer system identity questions: hostname, IP, name service (other!), subnet mask, timezone
• After booting, check out disk layout ('df'), find out why we don't like preinstalled OS

NOTE: http://docs.sun.com has been FLAKEY lately... so some of these links are not currently working. SORRY! Equivalent content can be found using the Answerbook2 program. If you have installed it, you can run it with 'answerbook2'.

OS Install Lab