Preparing To Install Digital Unix; Installation Preparation - DEC AlphaServer 1000A Owner's Manual

and press the Enter key. At this point, installation of Windows NT begins. For
further installation information, refer to your Windows NT documentation.

Preparing to Install Digital UNIX

Installation Preparation

Before installing Digital UNIX (DEC OSF/1) on your system, make sure that you
have the following items:
Digital UNIX Version 3.0B, Version 3.2d, or later
SRM console firmware, Version 2.0-3 or later
EISA Configuration Utility (ECU) diskette, Version 1.8 or later, for Digital
UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha.
Before starting installation, be sure to review the Digital UNIX release notes
("General Installation") and the Digital UNIX installation guide for your version of
the operating system.
Setting the Operating System Type
1. Turn the system on. After a short wait, the operator control panel on the front of
the system displays the message "Model 4/2xx," and the screen displays
initialization and testing information.
2. Press the Enter key. If the screen displays a triple arrow prompt (>>>) you have
booted the SRM console. Verify the value of the
environment variable. It should be set to "new." (See "Booting the Operating
System" in Chapter 4, "Basic Operation.") Then, proceed to the next section,
"Installing Digital UNIX."
If the computer booted directly into the ARC Boot menu, and you did not see the
>>> prompt, you must proceed to step 3 to switch to the SRM console.
3. From the ARC Boot menu, select the Supplementary menu.
4. From the Supplementary menu, select "Set up the system."
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Note: During installation, you are prompted for the
location of the files for Microsoft Windows NT. Install
the files into the larger of the two partitions you just
created, and when prompted, format that partition with
the NTFS file system.
set bus_probe_algorithm
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