This soft copy for use by IBM employees only.

1.Use the up arrow key or down arrow key to highlight a choice.

2.Press Enter.

2.4.1.3 Main Menu Options

Regardless of whether you started the system programs by booting from the system partition or from the reference diskette, the main menu similar to Figure 12 will be displayed.

 

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Main Menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Start Operating System

￿1￿

 

 

 

2.

Backup/Restore system programs

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3.

Update system programs

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4.

Set configuration

 

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5.

Set Features

 

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6.

Copy an option diskette

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7.

Test the computer

 

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8.

More utilities

 

￿8￿

 

 

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Enter

F1=Help

F3=Exit

 

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Figure 12. System Programs - Main Menu

The following are the options available on the Main Menu:

￿1￿ Start Operating System

Exits from the system programs and loads the operating system.

￿2￿ Backup/Restore system programs

Makes a backup copy of the system programs from the hard disk to diskette or restores the system programs from the diskette to hard disk.

￿3￿ Update system programs

Periodically, updated versions of the reference diskette and diagnostic diskette are made available. This option copies a new version of the system programs to the system partition. This option does not apply to disk-array models.

Note

This utility will only install system programs that are a later version than the ones already installed on the system partition.

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IBM SG24-4763-00 manual Main Menu Options, System Programs Main Menu