| System Overview |
| Powering Up Your System |
| Getting Required Information |
| The |
| the following information. Therefore, you should find out this |
| information before you turn the workstation on for the first time. |
| If you are not the system administrator for your workstation, and you do |
NOTE | |
| not know the required information, ask your system administrator for |
| the information. |
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Here is the information you will need. Please take time to fill in the blanks.
•Host name _____________________________________________
The host name is sometimes called the “system name.”
•Internet Protocol address ________________________________
You will need this address if you are connecting the workstation to a local area network.
•Time zone ______________________________________________
This is the time zone where the workstation is located.
•Optional networking parameters
Ask your system administrator if you need to configure these parameters.
Subnetwork mask | __________________ |
Network gateway IP address | __________________ |
Local domain name | __________________ |
DNS server host name | __________________ |
DNS server IP address | __________________ |
Network Information Service domain name | __________________ |
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