Using Setup To Configure Your System - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

Installing UNIX for the First Time
Sun 100/150 Installation Manual
When you see the monitor> sign, you boot the
UNIX
system by typing a b command to the
monitor, and the monitor responds by filling in the full details of the boot command. We must
boot the
UNIX
system with the
--s
option (come up single user), because there is no
tIIr
file sys-
tem as yet:
>
b
vmunix-.
Boot: di,k(O,O,O)vmunix -s
Load: d;,k(O,O,O)boot
The
UNIX
system startup procedure is automatic. It displays a progress report as it goes
through the initialization sequence.
Boot: d;,k(O,O,O)vmunix
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Several lines of configuration messages ... ]
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4.3.10. Using Setup to Configure Your System
At this point you invoke the
,etup
program to configure your system.
Setup
is essentially a system configurator in two parts: it consists of an interactive front-end
which gathers the information necessary to configure your system by conducting a dialogue with
you, and a non-interactive back-end which uses this information to do the actual configuration.
During the dialogue, ,etup does consistency and error checking to ensure that the configuration
will work. If errors are detected, they are reported to you, and you are asked to enter corrected
information.
You will use a different ,etup path if you are configuring
• A standalone system,
• A network server with equal-sized client partitions, or
• A network server with different-sized client partitions.
If you are configuring a standalone system, the dialogue with ,etup is fairly straightforward.
Glance through the next section,
Path 1: Standalone SJI"em Configuration,
to familiarize your-
self with the program's conventions.
If you are configuring a network server with one or more diskless nodes ("clients"), you can
establish equal or unequal client partitions. The choice depends in part on your clients' storage
needs - do they vary or are they roughly equivalent! - and also on your available resources -
you may need to allocate unequal partitioning to accommodate all clients, for example. Please
read the following before making the decision, as it is extremely difficult to 'undo' an esta-
blished configuration.
This release of the system runs diskless workstations off one or more se"er disks by keeping a
read-only copy of common files in the /
pub
directory (partition) of one of your drives. On this
drive, the server machine uses partition 'a' as its root and partition 'b' as its paging area. The
remainder of the drive (partition 'g') contains the
/pub
filesystem, followed by 'subpartitions' for
the diskless clients. Each diskless client machine is allocated a file system area for private disk
storage and a paging area (see
nd(4)
to understand how this is done). A generic abstract disk
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