Booting The Unix System In Single-User State; Using Setup To Configure Your System - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

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Installing UNIX on Systems without Tape Support
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disc=dilk
tape=tape host==Ierver_name rxtr
[ .. .incredible amounts of messages ... ]
Root filesystem extracted
:/I:
The extraction process takes ten to twenty minutes. The next job is to configure your system
and load the / ulr file system.
5.11. Booting the UNIX System in Single-User State
Now type a couple of sync commands to flush all I/O activity to the disks, then get back to the
monitor by typing 'SET-UP-A' or 'ERASE-EOF-A'. The monitor responds by displaying a
message like:
Abort at
lome addrell
When you see, the monitor> sign, boot the
UNIX
system in single-user state:
>
b
vmunix-s
[ . ' . .incredible amounts of messages ... )
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5.12. Using Setup to Configure Your System
At this point you invoke the
letup
program to configure your system.
Setup
is essentially a system configurator in two parts: it consists of an interactive (ront-end
which gathen 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,
letup
does consistency and error checking to ensure that the configuration
will work- If erron are detected, they are reported to you, and you are asked to enter corrected
information.
For standalone systems booting from a remote tape drive, the ,etup dialogue runs as follows. In
the example, what you might type in is shown in boldrace type like this; whatever is simply
displayed on the workstation monitor is shown in Roman type like this.
Italic item,
are vari-
ables which you must substitute.
Revision
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of 12 March 1984
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