INSTALLING SOFTWARE AND BOOTING

2 A NETBUILDER II SYSTEM

This chapter contains the following procedures:

Installing and booting Enterprise OS software

Making a backup copy of the software flash memory card

Installing Software

and Performing Initial

Boot

Enterprise OS software can be installed in the following ways:

From a flash memory card with preinstalled software. 3Com recommends this method.

EZBuilt NETBuilder II systems have a factory-installed software flash memory card. To boot your EZBuilt system, see “Booting an EZBuilt NETBuilder II System.”

For component NETBuilder II systems to boot from a flash memory card, they must have a flash memory drive installed. For installation instructions, see the NETBuilder II Flash Memory Drive Installation Guide. After you have installed a flash memory drive, see “Booting a Component NETBuilder II System” on page 10 for instructions on booting your system.

 

From CD-ROM on a UNIX or Windows network management station using

 

TFTP

 

 

Booting from the

To start the NETBuilder II system from a flash memory card with preinstalled

Flash Memory Card

software, follow the procedures in this section.

Prerequisites

Before you boot your new NETBuilder II system, you need to complete all setup

 

and installation instructions in the hardware guide provided with the system and

 

system components. You also need to connect a console to your system.

Booting an EZBuilt The EZBuilt NETBuilder II system comes with a factory-installed flash memory card NETBuilder II System that contains the Enterprise OS software. To boot an EZBuilt NETBuilder II system,

follow these steps:

1Turn on the EZBuilt NETBuilder system.

The NETBuilder II system boots from the default boot source a:/primary/boot.29K (the flash memory drive).

2When the boot operation is complete, press the Return key on the console. The Enterprise OS console prompt should appear on the screen.

If the console is not operating properly (if you see incorrect characters, or no characters), see the setup instructions in the hardware installation guide.

You are ready to establish basic settings on your system. See Chapter 4 for more information.

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