System Overview
Powering Up Your System
Turning on the Power
1.Turn on the monitor and any external peripherals (for example, printers) connected to the workstation.
2.Turn on the workstation. The workstation will run a series of
3.After two or three minutes, a series of messages are displayed as various hardware and software subsystems are activated. Unless something is wrong with your system, you are not asked to respond to these messages.
4.A series of windows appears requesting the information you gathered in the previous section, such as your host name, IP address, and time zone. Enter the information as it is requested.
NOTE | You should enter the host name when requested; otherwise, you will get |
| an error message when you log in. |
| If you do not have other pieces of information, press Enter to use the |
| default value. You can provide missing information later by logging into |
| a terminal emulator window as superuser and executing this command: |
| /sbin/set_parms |
| 5. You are now asked if you want to set a root password. Specify the |
| |
| root password now. The root password is the password used for the |
| superuser account. The superuser is a special user who has |
| permission to perform all system administration tasks. The user |
| name for the superuser is root. |
| 6. When you have finished answering all of the questions, the |
| workstation completes its |
| login screen. |
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