Loading The Mini Unix System; Booting The Mini Unix System - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

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Installing UNIX on Systems without Tape Support
Then, when diag has labelled the disk, it verifies the label it has just written. There is in fact a
separate verify command, but diag automatically does a verify as part of the labelling process.
When the 'diag>' prompt returns, get back to the monitor by responding "q" (for 'quit').
5.6. Loading the Mini UNIX System
Now boot the standalone copy program from the disk server. Remember to replace di,k with
xy for the Xylogics controller, or ip for the Interphase disk controller; and replace hOd_number
with the remote host's host number (in hex). Also, if you are not booting from the first Ether-
net Controller Board in your system, use the board's Multibus address (in hexadecimal) rather
than
"0"
in the boot command:
> b ec(O,hod_number)stand/copy
Boot: ec(O,hod_number )stand/copy
Load: ec(O,hod_number,O)boot
Boot: ec(O,hod_number,O)stand/copy
[ ... messages displaying sizes of copy program ... ]
Standalone Copy
From: ec(O,ho"_number,O)minif.
To: di,k(O,O,l)
The load process takes about four minutes. This process loads the mini file system into the
swap area on the disk. \Vhen it completes, the copy program returns control to the monitor:
Copy completed
>
5.7. Booting the Mini UNIX System
The next step is to boot
UNIX
in single user state and ask for its root file system:
>
b
ec(O,hod_num6er
)boot
When
UNIX
comes up and asks for its root file system, tell it "di,kO.". Since this notation
looks a bit ambiguous, let me clarify: if you are using a Xylogics controller, your root device is
xyO. ; if you are using an Interphase controller, it is ipO. - the asterisk is part of the device
name:
Boot: di,k(O,O,l)vmunix -as
[ .. .lots of messages ...
1
root device: di,kO.
*
At this point, the system may gently remind you to reset the date and time:
WARNING: clock gained 16845 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
You can do this when your prompt returns, with the date(l) command.
Revision
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of 12 March 1984
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