Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual Format disk drive prompt

440Chapter 14: Software installation, upgrade, and update procedures

Procedure 6: Load the operating system tape on an IPE Module or an Application Module with an MVME167 card (continued)

Note: If your drive does not appear in Figure 184, but another drive of the same size is listed, use the option number for the listed drive. Alternatively, choose option 6 for M2614S, or option 16 for ST3283N. Although options 8, 9, and 16 start with the prefix Òm147,Ó these options are also applicable to IPE Modules and Application Modules with MVME167 cards. If you experience difficulties, contact your Nortel support personnel.

Disk types used		Select this number
CDC ST1126N	9204 (104 Mbyte)	8
CDC ST1201N	(172 Mbyte)	9
Fujitsu M2614S (180 Mbyte)		6
Seagate ST3283N (240 Mbyte)		16

20For this example, the m147sea3283 disk drive is being used. Type 16 and press [Return].

The system response is: ÒSelected the XXXX disk type,Ó where XXXX represents the disk type selected.

Figure 189

Format disk drive prompt

Selected the Ôm147sea3283Õ disk type.

If the root file systemÕs disk is new or needs to be formatted, it can be formatted now. In order for you to take advantage of dynamic disk slicing capabilities and the use of the sledit(1M) utility you may have to reformat the disk if it was formatted with the R3V3 or earlier version of

the BOS disk formatter, dinit(1M).

WARNING - FORMATTING THE DISK WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON THE DISK.

---> Format the root file systemÕs disk drive (y, n, ?, q) [n]:

21You are prompted to format the root file systemÕs disk drive. Type y and press [Return] to indicate that you wish to format the drive.

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998