Installing and Using Utilities 6-7

–Off-line Maintenance Utility Bootable FD

Creates a support disk for activating the Off-line Maintenance Utility.

„Setup Maintenance Partition

Maintenance partition is a specific partition for the server and created on your system disk. About 55MB of the maintenance partition includes the various maintenance utilities and executable commands.

In this menu, you can create the maintenance partition, install the various utilities, and update the utilities. The maintenance utilities installed in the maintenance partition are system diagnostics and Off-line Maintenance Utility.

IMPORTANT:

„Do not reset or turn off the server while the running this menu. If the processing is discontinued, the system becomes unable to start.

„The existence of the maintenance partition may be identified from the operating system. In order to retain the Configuration Data, do not delete the partition.

NOTES:

„The maintenance partition, once created, will not be recreated again.

„When the maintenance partition does not exist, some menu items do not appear.

–Create Maintenance Partition

NEC EXPRESSBUILDER creates about 55MB of the maintenance partition on the system disk (or disk array system) as work area. The various utilities are installed when the maintenance partition is created successfully or when the maintenance partition is already created.

–Install Maintenance Partition Utilities

Various utilities are installed in the maintenance partition from the CD-ROM.

–Update Maintenance Partition Utilities

Various utilities are copied in the Maintenance Partition from the update disk. This menu is only used when the update disk is supplied from your service representative or attached with your system.

–FDISK

Execute FDISK command of ROM-DOS system. You can create/delete partitions, etc.