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Sun Ultra
40 M2 Workstation
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Operating System Installation
Guide
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
www.sun.com
Part No. 819-7577-10
November 2006, Revision A
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  • Page 1 Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation ™ Operating System Installation Guide Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com Part No. 819-7577-10 November 2006, Revision A Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback...
  • Page 2 Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, Californie 95054, Etats-Unis. Tous droits réservés. Sun Microsystems, Inc. a les droits de propriété intellectuels relatants à la technologie qui est décrit dans ce document. En particulier, et sans la limitation, ces droits de propriété...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Preface vii Operating System Setup and Installation 1 Planning the Operating System Installation 1 Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk 3 Setting Up the BIOS for Operating System Installation 3 Setting Up the BIOS for the Windows XP Operating System 4 Setting up the BIOS for a Linux Operating System or Solaris 10 Operating System 4 Enabling SATA RAID Support 4...
  • Page 4 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System 35 Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software 37 Sun Studio 11 Software 37 Sun Java Studio Creator 2 38 Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Software 39 Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...
  • Page 5 NetBeans IDE 5.0 ML 39 Restoring and Backing Up Preinstalled Software 39 Backing Up and Restoring the Solaris OS 39 Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software 40 Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive 40 Hard Drive Mirroring 40 Contents...
  • Page 6 Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 7: Preface

    Preface The Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide contains the information required to configure the Solaris™ 10, Linux, and Windows operating systems on your workstation. Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell machine-name% C shell superuser machine-name# Bourne shell and Korn shell...

  • Page 8: Typographic Conventions

    * The settings on your browser might differ from these settings. Related Documentation The document set for the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation is described in the Where To Find Documentation, 819-7576 sheet that is packed with your system. Translated versions of some of these documents are available at the product’s documentation site in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
  • Page 9 Documentation, Warrenty, Support, and Training URLs Sun Function Description Hardware Sun hardware documentation http://www.sun.com/documentation Documentation Software Solaris and other software documentation http://docs.sun.com Documentation Warranty View specific details regarding your http://www.sun.com/service/support/ warranty warranty/index.html Support Obtain technical support, including http://www.sun.com/support/ patches Training Learn about Sun courses and educational http://www.sun.com/training/ offerings...
  • Page 10 You can submit your comments by going to: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback Please include the title and part number of your document with your feedback: Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Guide, 819-7577. x Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 11: Operating System Setup And Installation

    “Configuring SLI Support” on page 29 ■ “Downloading Sun N1 Grid Engine” on page 31 ■ Diagnostics software is also included on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD. Planning the Operating System Installation shows the process flow for installing an operating system on your FIGURE 1-1 workstation.
  • Page 12 Install or enable additional software. “Configuring SLI Support” on page 29 “Download- ing Sun N1 Grid Engine” on page READY TO WORK! Operating System Installation Process FIGURE 1-1 Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 13: Erasing The Primary Boot Hard Disk

    Setting Up the BIOS for Operating System Installation If you plan to install an operating system onto the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, you need to make sure that the BIOS is set up correctly before installing the software. This section includes instructions for setting up the BIOS for the Windows XP, Linux, and Solaris 10.

  • Page 14: Setting Up The Bios For The Windows Xp Operating System

    4. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIOS Setup Utility. Enabling SATA RAID Support The Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation can accommodate up to eight drives for the following Windows XP SP2 32-bit and Windows XP 64-bit RAID array...

  • Page 15: Configuring Raid

    To enable RAID support for the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, you need to configure the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation BIOS and the NVRAID BIOS. This procedure also includes instructions for creating a diagnostic partition for a RAID configuration.

  • Page 16: Configuring Sas Raid With An Lsi Sas Card

    Create IS Volume: for creating a Striping array ■ 5. Select the disks to be added to the RAID array. a. Move the cursor over to the RAID Disk field. Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...
  • Page 17 b. Select Yes, to change the RAID Disk field. Do this for all disks you want to added to the RAID array. Note – You will be receive a warning message about losing the data on the disk. If you are selecting a mirror, on the first disk you select you will be asked if you want to keep the data and have it synchronized in the mirror.

  • Page 18: Installing The Operating System

    System Drivers” on page 12 “Enabling SATA RAID Support” on page Note – The diagnostic partition is preinstalled on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation. You can obtain information about how to reinstall the diagnostic partition from the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD.

  • Page 19: Running The Up2Date Utility

    Diagnostic Partition After installing the operating system, run the installation script provided on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD to install the drivers that correspond to your operating system. 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.

  • Page 20: Installing Linux Operating System Drivers

    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 M2 Workstation as superuser. 2. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive and type: cd /mountpoint/drivers/linux/operating_system 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).

  • Page 21: Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers

    Operating System (if the Solaris Operating System is not preinstalled): 1. Log in to the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation as superuser. 2. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive. The CD is automounted by the Solaris 10 Operating System.

  • Page 22: Installing Windows Xp Operating System Drivers

    Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers The Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation 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.

  • Page 23: Installing Raid Drivers Using The Xpreburn Script

    To create a Windows XP CD with the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation drivers: 1. On a system Solaris x86, Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition), or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4, or SLED 10 software, insert the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD.

  • Page 24: Installing Raid Drivers Using A Boot Diskette

    Installing RAID Drivers Using a Boot Diskette This section explains how to create a boot diskette for the NVIDIA RAID drivers using the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD, and how to install the drivers onto your workstation.
  • Page 25 Creating a Boot Diskette for NVIDIA RAID Drivers To create a boot diskette for NVIDIA RAID drivers: 1. On a system running Microsoft Windows software, insert the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD. 2. Change to the appropriate directory on the Tools and Drivers CD by typing the following: C:\>...

  • Page 26: Installing Nvidia Display And Chipset Drivers For Windows Xp

    To install the NVIDIA display and chipset drivers after installing Windows XP: 1. Insert the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD into the DVD drive. 2. (If necessary) Install the chipset drivers: a. Change to the appropriate directory on the Tools and Drivers CD by typing the following command: C:\>...

  • Page 27: Installing Infineon Tpm And Realtek Audio Drivers

    Installing Infineon TPM and RealTek Audio Drivers Trusted Platform Computing (TPM) 1.2 and RealTek digital audio (SPDIF) are included on the Tools and Drivers CD. To use these features, you need to install the drivers. Note – If the Infineon TPM drivers are not installed, a yellow exclamation mark will appear in the device manager.

  • Page 28: Creating Windows Images On A Ris Server And Installing Ris Images

    Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images This section contains the instructions for creating Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation specific images on the Remote Installation Service (RIS) server for the following operating systems: Windows XP SP2 32-bit ■...

  • Page 29: Creating A 32-Bit Windows Xp (Service Pack 2) Ris Image

    Creating a 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2) RIS Image This section describes 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 Tools and Drivers CD, version 1.2 or later.

  • Page 30: Adding The Nvida Ethernet Drivers To The Windows Image

    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. Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 31: Adding Other Drivers And Modifying Settings Files

    Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Settings Files 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: Note – 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.
  • Page 32 OemDir 5. To copy Windows XP 32-bit driver files from the Tools and Drivers CD to the $oem$ directory tree, type the following commands: Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...
  • Page 33 Note – The drivers are located in the following directory on 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: c:\ copy cdrom_drive:\drivers\windows\xp32\chipset\*.zip c:\temp b. To unzip the package, type the following command: c:\ unzip c:\temp\nfref_918_wxp.zip c:\temp\nfref_918_wxp 6.

  • Page 34: Creating A 64-Bit Windows Xp Ris Image

    Windows XP 64-bit CD, and then click Next. 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: Ultra_40_Windows_XP_64-bit Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 35: Adding The Nvida Ethernet Drivers To The Windows Image

    8. In the Friendly Description and Help Text screen, type a description and help text (for future end-user reference), and then click Next. 9. In the Previous Client Installation Screens Found screen, choose “Use the new client installation screens, and overwrite the old ones, and then click Next. 10.
  • Page 36 [UserData] ProductKey = XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX [Identification] JoinWorkgroup = WORKGROUP 4. To create the $oem$ directory for the RIS image, type the following command: c:\ mkdir cdrom_drive:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\image_dir Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...
  • Page 37 The $oem$ directory will have a subdirectory tree structure with the following directory names: textmode drivers sata_ide smbus OemDir 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 Tools and Drivers CD: cdrom_drive:\drivers\windows\xp64\chipset\ a.

  • Page 38: Installing A Ris Image Onto A Client Workstation

    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. Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 39: Configuring Sli Support

    NVIDIA GPUs in a single system. SLI technology can scale both geometry and fill rate performance for two GPUs. In order to enable SLI functionality, you need two of same cards installed. The following graphics cards are supported for Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation SLI operation: FX3500 ■...

  • Page 40: Enabling Sli For Linux

    On the hard drive after the display drivers are installed: ■ /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/readme.txt On the Tools and Drivers CD at: /drivers/linux/OS/display/readme.txt. ■ Where OS is red_hat or suse. Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 41: Downloading Sun N1 Grid Engine

    Sun's N1 Grid Engine. To purchase support, no additional licenses are required. These RTUs can only be used with the Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation that it came with. The RTUs are non-transferable and cannot be used on other hardware.
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  • Page 43: Setting Up The Preinstalled Software

    Setting Up the Preinstalled Software The Solaris 10 Operating System and additional development software are preinstalled on all Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstations. This chapter contains instructions on configuring the operating system and using the software installed on the system.

  • Page 44: Licensing Information

    If you install a different version of Solaris software, you might be required to pay a licensing fee for the new software version. The Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation requires the Solaris 10 HW 6/06 operating system or a compatible version.

  • Page 45: Configuring The Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

    System To configure the preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System: 1. Power on the workstation. See the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Installation Guide, 820-0121. 2. Answer the setup prompts by following the onscreen instructions. Use a copy of to record the information that you might need before setting TABLE 2-1 up the Solaris 10 Operating System.
  • Page 46 Date and Time Current date and time (accept the default or enter the current date and time). Root Password Root (superuser) password for the workstation. Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 47: Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software

    To launch one of the preinstalled development programs, double-click on the appropriate icon on the JDS desktop. The following sections describe the development software that is preinstalled or preloaded on your Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation: “Sun Studio 11 Software” on page 37 ■...

  • Page 48: Sun Java Studio Creator 2

    Java platform to solve business problems, using the highly productive visual style to which they are accustomed. Additional information about Sun Java Studio Creator can be found in the product documentation at: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference /docs/index.jsp Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

  • Page 49: Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Software

    Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Software Sun Java Studio Enterprise software is a complete, cost-effective, unified platform of tools, support, and services designed to fully integrate with the capabilities of the Sun Java Enterprise System. Sun Java Studio Enterprise enables you to develop applications in an environment carefully designed to improve productivity while simplifying the creation of sophisticated network applications that will be readily deployed on the Java Enterprise System.

  • Page 50: Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software

    To perform hard drive mirroring using the Solaris 10 operating environment, use the Solaris Volume Manager. For information about the Solaris Volume Manager, see the Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/ Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006...

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