NOTE
System Overview
Powering Up Your System
Getting Required Information
The start-up procedure for your workstation will require you to supply
the following information. Therefore, you should find out this
information before you turn the workstation on for the first time.
If you are not the system administrator for your workstation, and you do
not know the required information, ask your system administrator for
the information.
Here is the information you will need. Please take time to fill in the
blanks.
• Host name _____________________________________________
The host name is sometimes called the "system name."
• Internet Protocol address ________________________________
You will need this address if you are connecting the workstation to a
local area network.
• Time zone ______________________________________________
This is the time zone where the workstation is located.
• Optional networking parameters
Ask your system administrator if you need to configure these
parameters.
Subnetwork mask
Network gateway IP address
Local domain name
DNS server host name
DNS server IP address
Network Information Service domain name
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