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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 |
| or the documents that ship with the components. |
See “Cabling the Workstation”.
See “Powering On the Workstation”.
Use a | No | |
preinstalled |
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version of |
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software? |
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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. |
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See “Setting Up Your Operating System”.
See “Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled
Software”.
FIGURE 1-1 Process 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.
