Before Installing The Software; Verifying The Software And Hardware Requirements; To Remove Older Versions Of The Software; Table 3-1 Required Disk Space - Sun Microsystems Sun PCI High Speed User Manual

Before Installing the Software

Verifying the Software and Hardware
Requirements
Before installing the software, answer the following questions:
Does your system have any available 3.3V or 5V PCI slots?
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Have you downloaded the SunHSI software from the Sun Download Center at:
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http://www.sun.com/download
What is the installation directory (default directory is /opt)?
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Do you have the superuser password for both the system where the software is to
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be installed and the system with download software, if different?
Does your system have enough disk space?
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Use both the following commands to check for disk space:
# df -k /opt
# df -k /
Required Disk Space
TABLE 3-1
SunHSI Package Name
SUNWhsip
SUNWhsipm and SUNWhsipu

▼ To Remove Older Versions of the Software

Caution – Do not overwrite any existing SunHSI software packages. If you install
the SunHSI software packages over existing SunHSI software packages, you will
have two instances of the software packages. This might cause problems when
installing or backing out of software patches.
Default Installation Directory
/
/opt
Chapter 3 SunHSI PCI Software Installation
Approximate Space Required
1 Mbyte
1 Mbyte total
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