Sun Microsystems manual 1Process for Installing the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation

START

Unpack the workstation and familiarize yourself with the workstation features.

See “Unpacking the Workstation”.

See also “Front Panel Overview” and

“Back Panel Overview”.

Yes

Install optional components?

No

Connect the workstation and external device cables.

Power on the workstation.

Install	To install DIMMs, graphic accelerators,
optional	PCI cards, hard drives, diskette drives, tape drives, or
components.	optical media drives, see the Sun Blade 2500 Service,
	Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual (817-5117)
	or the documents that ship with the components.

See “Cabling the Workstation”.

See “Powering On the Workstation”.

Use a		No
preinstalled
version of
software?
	Yes

Answer the Solaris software prompts.

READY TO WORK!

Install different	For instructions, refer to the documentation in the
version from	Solaris Media Kit for your operating system.
other media.

See “Setting Up Your Operating System”.

See “Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled

Software”.

FIGURE 1-1Process for Installing the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation

Note – Solaris 8 2/04 and Solaris 9 9/04 and several additional software applications are preinstalled on your hard drive. See “Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System Software” on page 11.

2 Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide • December 2004