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Sun Ultra
20 Workstation
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Getting Started Guide
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
www.sun.com
Part No. 819-2148-12
April 2006, Revision A
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  • Page 1 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation ™ Getting Started Guide Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com Part No. 819-2148-12 April 2006, Revision A Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback...
  • Page 2 Copyright 2005-2006 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 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1–1 Safety Information 1–1 Planning the Installation 1–2 Unpacking the Workstation 1–3 1.3.1 Front Panel Overview 1–4 1.3.2 Back Panel Overview 1–5 Cabling the Workstation 1–6 Powering On the Workstation 1–8 Powering Off the Workstation 1–9...
  • Page 4 A. Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images A–1 Creating a 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2) RIS Image A–2 A.1.1 Creating the Windows XP SP2 32-bit Image on the RIS Server A–2 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...
  • Page 5 A.1.2 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image A–3 A.1.3 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files A–4 Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image A–7 A.2.1 Installing Windows XP 64-bit onto the RIS Server A–7 A.2.2 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image A–8 A.2.3 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files A–8 Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation A–12...
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  • Page 7: Preface

    Preface The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide provides the information that you need to set up, power on, and configure the workstation hardware and software. How This Book Is Organized This guide is organized into the following chapters:...

  • Page 8: Typographic Conventions

    You must be superuser to do this. with real names or values. To delete a file, type rm filename. * The settings on your browser might differ from these settings. viii Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 9: Related Documentation

    Related Documentation The document set for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation is described in the Where To Find Documentation sheet that is packed with your system, and all documents are posted at the product’s documentation site. See the following URL: http://www.sun.com/products-n-...
  • 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 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide, 819-2148-12. x Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 11: Setting Up The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation

    ■ Section 1.6, “Powering Off the Workstation” on page 1-9 ■ Safety Information Refer to the following document for safety information regarding the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: Important Safety Information for Sun Hardware Systems, 816-7190-xx (a hard-copy ■ document is included in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation ship kit).

  • Page 12: Planning The Installation

    Install the supplemental drivers from the Sun Mounting the Diagnostic Partition” on page 2-6. Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD. READY TO WORK! Flowchart for Installing the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation FIGURE 1-1 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 13: Unpacking The Workstation

    ■ Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Release Notes ■ Additional safety and license documentation ■ Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD (includes drivers and diagnostics ■ software) DMS-59 cable (if the workstation is configured with an NVS280 or NVS285 ■ graphics card) Mouse (for some Sun Ultra 20 Workstation configurations) ■...

  • Page 14: Front Panel Overview

    FIGURE 1-3 Front Panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation TABLE 1-1 Label Button/LED/Port Label Button/LED/port Power button Two USB ports Power LED Microphone-in jack Two 1394 (FireWire) ports Headphone-out jack Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 15: Back Panel Overview

    Power connector Ethernet connector Power switch Four USB connectors Onboard HDI15 video connector PCI Express x16 graphics slot Microphone jack Four PCI slots Line-in jack Two PCI Express x1 slots Line-out jack Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation...

  • Page 16: Cabling The Workstation

    2. Connect the keyboard and mouse to the USB connectors on the back panel. 3. Connect the Ethernet cable to the Ethernet connector on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, and connect the other end of the cable to an Ethernet RJ-45 jack.
  • Page 17 Connecting a monitor to the onboard video connector Connecting a monitor to a PCI Express graphics card connector Connecting the Monitor FIGURE 1-6 5. Connect any additional external devices to the workstation’s other connectors. Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation...

  • Page 18: Powering On The Workstation

    Chapter 2 for information about installing an operating system. ■ Chapter 3 for information about configuring the preinstalled Solaris 10 ■ operating system. Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 19: Powering Off The Workstation

    This method could result in data loss. If the preceding options fail to power off the workstation, see “Troubleshooting” in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation User Guide, 819-2146, for more options. Note – After powering off the workstation, wait at least four seconds before powering on the workstation again.
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  • Page 21: Software Installation

    Solaris 10 Operating System. Diagnostics software is also included on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD. Instructions for using the diagnostics software are provided in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation User Guide, 819-2146.
  • Page 22 Section 2.4, “Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diag- Install the drivers from the Supplemental CD. nostic Partition” on page 2-6. READY TO WORK! Installation Flow Diagram FIGURE 2-1 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 23: Erasing The Primary Boot Hard Disk

    If you do not have enough space on the boot partition to install an operating system, the Erase Primary Boot Hard Disk option on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD main menu enables you to erase other installed operating systems to make room for the new installation.

  • Page 24: Setting Up The Bios For Operating System Installation

    Setting up the BIOS for Operating System Installation If you plan to install an operating system onto the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, you need to make sure that the BIOS is set up correctly before installing the software. See the section below that matches the operating system you plan to install.

  • Page 25: Installing The Operating System

    System Drivers” on page 2-10. If you want to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4 WS or SUSE Linux Enterprise System on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, you can order the software from the following web site: http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/index.html Note –...

  • Page 26: Running The Up2Date Utility

    Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD to install the drivers that correspond to your operating system. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD is included with your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. You can also download the Supplemental CD from the downloads link http://www.sun.com/ultra20...

  • Page 27: Installing Linux Operating System Drivers

    To install the video drivers and mount the diagnostic partition when running a Linux operating system: 1. Log in to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation as superuser. 2. Insert the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental 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.
  • Page 28 Type the following at the system prompt: % init 3 b. Log in as superuser. c. Repeat Step 4 Step 7. Eject the CD after the driver installation is complete. 8. Reboot the workstation. Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 29: Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers

    Operating System: 1. Log in to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation as superuser. 2. Insert the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD into the DVD drive. The CD is automounted by the Solaris 10 Operating System. 3. Change to the /cdrom/cdrom0/drivers/sx86 directory by typing the following...

  • Page 30: Installing Windows Xp Operating System Drivers

    Note – Make sure to keep the 55 MB diagnostic partition in place when doing the installation. If the diagnostic partition gets erased for some reason, use the Create Diagnostic Partion option in the Diagnostics section of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD. See the Sun Ultra 20 WorkstationUser Guide for more details.

  • Page 31: Installing Raid Drivers Using Xpreburn Script

    1. On a Solaris x86, Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition), or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4, or SLES 9 system, insert the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental 2. As superuser, create a temporary directory with at least 1.2 GB of space. For...

  • Page 32: Installing Raid Drivers Using A Boot Diskette

    ISO image and then automatically burns that ISO image onto a CD if the system has a CD burner. 7. After the CD is created, install Windows XP Professional on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. 8. After the OS installation is complete, install the NVDIA display drivers as shown Section 2.4.4, “Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows XP”...
  • Page 33 6. Select all files in the directory and copy them to the diskette drive (a:). Configuring RAID in the BIOS To configure RAID in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation BIOS and RAID BIOS on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: 1. Configure RAID in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation BIOS.

  • Page 34: Installing Nvidia Display And Chipset Drivers For Windows Xp

    Installing Windows XP and NVIDIA RAID Drivers To install Windows XP with the NVIDIA RAID drivers on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: 1. Attach a USB floppy diskette drive to the workstation. 2. Insert a Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit installation CD into the DVD drive.
  • Page 35 b. Double-click the executable file. c. Follow the instructions in the installation software. 3. Do the following steps to install the display drivers: a. Change to the directory on the Supplemental CD by typing the following command: C:\> cd/D D:\drivers\windows\OS\video Where OS is XP32 or XP64.
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  • Page 37: 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 20 Workstations. This chapter contains instructions on configuring the operating system and using the software installed on the system. This chapter contains the following sections: Section 3.1, “Configuring Solaris 10 Operating System Software”...

  • Page 38: Licensing Information

    Licensing Information The Solaris 10 Operating System installed on your workstation requires no licensing fee. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation requires Solaris 10, HW 1 or a subsequent compatible version of Solaris software. For more information, refer to the following web site: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/index.html...

  • Page 39: Configuring The Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

    3.1.4 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System Complete the following steps to configure the preinstalled Solaris 10 x86 Platform Edition. 1. Power on the workstation. Section 1.5, “Powering On the Workstation” on page 1-8. 2. Answer the setup prompts by following the on-screen instructions. Use a copy of to write down the information that you might need to collect TABLE 3-1...
  • Page 40 Current date and time (accept the default or enter the current date and time). Root Password Root (superuser) password for the workstation. Proxy Server Workstation connection: direct to the Internet or through a Configuration proxy server. Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 41: Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software

    Software The following minimum versions of development software is preinstalled or preloaded on your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: Sun Studio 10, Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7. Your system might have later versions of this software preinstalled. Workstations shipped after January 2006, also have the NetBeans IDE installed.

  • Page 42: Sun Java Studio Creator

    Java Enterprise System. Additional information about Sun Java Studio Enterprise can be found in the product documentation at: http://developers.sun.com/jsenterprise Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 43: Netbeans Ide

    3.2.4 NetBeans IDE The NetBeans IDE includes Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development capabilities. This new release allows developers to not only develop applications in the web tier but also includes Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and web service development capabilities. The NetBeans IDE is a single platform with out-of-the-box development capabilities and support for enterprise (J2EE 1.4) applications and web services, mobile/wireless Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) applications and services and desktop Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) applications.

  • Page 44: Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software

    If you must reinstall other software packages, be sure that you have the latest software version. For more information on the latest software versions, refer to the web sites listed throughout this guide. Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 45: Backing Up The Preinstalled Image To Another Hard Drive

    3.3.4 Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive Information about hard drive backups can be found in the Solaris 10 System Administration Guide. To obtain this guide, refer to the following web site: http://docs.sun.com/ 3.3.5 Hard Drive Mirroring To perform hard drive mirroring using the Solaris 10 operating environment use Solaris Volume Manager.
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  • Page 47: Creating Windows Images On A Ris Server And Installing Ris Images

    A P P E N D I X Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images This appendix describes how to create Sun Ultra 20 Workstation specific images on the Remote Installation Service (RIS) server for the following operating systems: Windows XP SP2 32-bit ■...

  • Page 48: Creating A 32-Bit Windows Xp (Service Pack 2) Ris Image

    5. In the “Remote Installation Services Options“ screen, choose “Add a new OS image to this remote installation server“. 6. In the Installation Source Files Location screen, choose the CDROM drive with the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD. Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 49: Adding The Nvida Ethernet Drivers To The Windows Image

    7. In the “Windows Installation Image Folder Name“ screen, type a descriptive name for the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD image you are creating. For example: Ultra_20_Windows_XP_SP2_32-bit 8. In the “Friendly Description and Help Text” screen, type a description and help text (for future end-user reference).

  • Page 50: Adding Other Drivers And Modifying Setting Files

    1. Change these entries in the ristndrd.sif file to read as follows: [Unattended] OemPreinstall = yes [GuiUnattended] “ “ desired password AdminPassword = 2. Remove the following entry from the ristndrd.sif file: [Identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...
  • Page 51 3. Add the following entries to the ristndrd.sif file: [Unattended] DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore “ OemPnPDriversPath = \drivers\audio;\drivers\nic;\drivers\sata_ide;\ “ drivers\smbus [MassStorageDrivers] “ “ “ “ Nvidia RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) “ “ “ “ Nvidia nForce Storage Controller (required) [OEMBootFiles] nvatabus.sys nvraid.cat nvraid.inf nvraid.sys...
  • Page 52 Add a semicolon to the beginning of each line for files that are of type *.dll in the [Files.scsi.RAIDClASS] and [Files.scsi.BUSDRV] sections. 8. To enable the RIS server to distribute the RIS image you created, type the following commands: c:\ net Stop binlsvc c:\ net Start binlsvc Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

  • Page 53: Creating A 64-Bit Windows Xp Ris Image

    Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image This section tells you how to create a Windows XP 64-bit image on a RIS server and then add platform specific drivers to the image. All drivers for this procedure located on the Supplemental CD, version 1.3 or later. Note –...

  • Page 54: Adding The Nvida Ethernet Drivers To The Windows Image

    Windows XP 64-bit image on the RIS server, do the following steps. The ristndrd.sif file is located in the following directory on the RIS server: ris_partition:\RemoteInstall\Setup\Englsh\Images\image_dir\i386\ templates Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...
  • Page 55 1. Change these entries in the ristndrd.sif file to read as follows: [Unattended] OemPreinstall = yes [GuiUnattended] “ “ AdminPassword = <desired password> 2. Remove the following entry from the ristndrd.sif file: [Identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes 3. Add the following entries to the ristndrd.sif file: [Unattended] DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore “...
  • Page 56 To copy the zip package to the RIS server, type the following command: copy cdrom_drive:\drivers\windows\xp64\chipset\*.zip c:\temp b. To unzip the package, type the following command: unzip c:\temp\ck804_669_xp64.zip c:\temp\ck804_669_xp64 A-10 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...
  • Page 57 6. To copy the driver files to the proper directories, type the following commands: \ide\winxp\sataraid\*.dll ris_partition:\remoteinstall\ c:\ copy c:\temp\ ck804_669_xp64 setup\english\images\image_dir\$oem$\$$\OemDir \ide\winxp\sataraid\* ris_partition:\remoteinstall\ ck804_669_xp64 c:\ copy c:\temp\ setup\english\images\image_dir\$oem$\textmode \ide\winxp\sata_ide\* ris_partition:\remoteinstall\ ck804_669_xp64 c:\ copy c:\temp\ setup\english\images\image_dir\$oem$\$1\drivers\sata_ide \ethernet\* ris_partition:\remoteinstall\setup\english\ c:\ copy c:\temp\ ck804_669_xp64 images\image_dir\$oem$\$1\drivers\nic \audiodrv\* ris_partition:\remoteinstall\setup\english\...

  • Page 58: 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. A-12 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006...

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