60 Netra ft 1800 Installation Guide • February 1999
Before YouStart
Caution – Before inserting a CD-ROM disk into your system read “Handling and
TakingCare of your CD-ROM Disks” in the Netra ft 1800 Compliance and Safety
Manual. In some circumstances if your CD-ROM disk does not have a clean data
surface your system may fail to boot.
1. Establish the following:
■The system Ethernet address (displayed in the BOOT PROM messages at system
startup, which you can display with the banner utility,invoked from the ok
prompt).
■The system IP address (see your system administrator).
■The machine name (see your system administrator).
■The netmask (see your system administrator).
■The name service (for example, NIS or NIS+; see your system administrator).
2. You need to be at the OBP ok prompt in order to perform the installation.

▼To Install the Software

This section describes the steps necessary to install a Netra ft1800 system with the
Solaris operating environment and Netraft 1800 software.
Note – It is recommended that you install Solaris on one hard disk only in order to
optimize the performance of the VolumeManager.
1. Disengage all the hard disk drive modules except the one in the location on which
you wish to install the operating environment.
See FIGURE2-17 on page 2-33. You do not need to remove the modules fromtheir
slots completely.
2. If the system is powered down, power on the system.
See “ToPower On the System” on page 55.
3. Perform Step a for network installation or Step b for local installation.
a. Set up an install server with the Netra ft 1800 CD-ROM
Follow the procedures outlined in Chapter 7 of the Solaris Advanced Installation
Guide (part number 802-5740-10).
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