Sun Microsystems 2500 manual

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Sun Blade™ 2500

Getting Started Guide

(Silver)

Silver bezel

Part No. 817-5119-11

December 2004, Revision A

Contents

Main Page Contents Page Page Page Figures Page Tables Page Preface How This Book Is Organized Using UNIX Commands Typographic Conventions Shell Prompts Related Documentation Accessing Sun Documentation Online Page Page Setting Up the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Safety and Compliance Information Planning the Installation Process Note Page Front Panel Overview Back Panel Overview Page Page Note Powering On the Workstation Tip Powering Off the Workstation Note Page Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System Software Planning the Installation Process for Solaris Note Setting Up Your Operating System Note Tip Sun Install Check Downloading Sun Install Check Note Power Management Features Chapter 2 Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System Software 17 Putting the Workstation Into Low-Power Mode Sleep key Note to power off the workstation. See Note Page Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled Software Solaris Documentation Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Hardware Documentation Documentation on the Hard Drive Note Documentation on CD Note Viewing ShowMe How Video Animations Method 1 Method 2 Mozilla Getting Started With Mozilla Solstice DiskSuite and Volume Manager Getting Started With Solstice DiskSuite on the Solaris 8 Operating System Getting Started With Volume Manager on the Solaris 9 Operating System Common Desktop Environment (CDE) GNOME Desktop Environment Getting Started With GNOME Apache Server Getting Started With Apache Server Adobe Acrobat Reader Getting Started With Adobe Acrobat Reader Sun ONE Grid Engine StarOffice Getting Started With StarOffice Note Sun ONE Studio Getting Started With Sun ONE Studio Perl Getting Started With Perl Development Tools for the Java Platform Note JMStudio Getting Started With JMStudio Note SunForum Getting Started With SunForum Restoring Preinstalled Software Restoring the Solaris Preinstalled Software Note Restoring the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Documentation Reinstalling Other Software Reinstalling StarOffice Software Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive Hard Drive Mirroring Solaris 8 Solaris 9 Page Troubleshooting and Technical Support Troubleshooting the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Page Page Page Page How to Get Technical Assistance