Sun Microsystems Blade 2500 User Manual

Sun Blade™ 2500

Getting Started Guide

(Silver)

Silver bezel

Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com

Part No. 817-5119-11 December 2004, Revision A

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1. Setting Up the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation 1

Safety and Compliance Information 1

Planning the Installation Process 1

Unpacking the Workstation 3

Front Panel Overview 4

Back Panel Overview 5

Cabling the Workstation 7

Powering On the Workstation 8

Powering Off the Workstation 9

2. Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System Software 11

Planning the Installation Process for Solaris 11

Setting Up Your Operating System 12

Sun Install Check 14

Downloading Sun Install Check 15

Power Management Features 16

Putting the Workstation Into Low-Power Mode 17

Activating the Workstation From Low-Power Mode 17

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3. Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled Software 19

Solaris Documentation 20

Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Hardware Documentation 20

Documentation on the Hard Drive 20

Documentation on CD 21

Viewing ShowMe How Video Animations 21

Mozilla 22

Getting Started With Mozilla 22

Solstice DiskSuite and Volume Manager 22

Getting Started With Solstice DiskSuite on the Solaris 8 Operating System 22

Getting Started With Volume Manager on the Solaris 9 Operating System 23

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 23

GNOME Desktop Environment 23

Getting Started With GNOME 24

Apache Server 24

Getting Started With Apache Server 24

Adobe Acrobat Reader 25

Getting Started With Adobe Acrobat Reader 25

Sun ONE Grid Engine 25

StarOffice 26

Getting Started With StarOffice 26

Sun ONE Studio 27

Getting Started With Sun ONE Studio 27

Perl 27

Getting Started With Perl 28

Development Tools for the Java Platform 28

JMStudio 29

Getting Started With JMStudio 29

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SunForum 29

Getting Started With SunForum 30

Restoring Preinstalled Software 30

Restoring the Solaris Preinstalled Software 31

Restoring the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation Documentation 31

Reinstalling Other Software 32

Reinstalling StarOffice Software 32

Reinstalling Mozilla 32

Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive 32

Hard Drive Mirroring 33

Solaris 8 33

Solaris 9 33

4. Troubleshooting and Technical Support 35

Troubleshooting the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation 35

How to Get Technical Assistance 40

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Figures

FIGURE 1-1 Process for Installing the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation 2

FIGURE 1-2 Unpacking the Workstation 3

FIGURE 1-3 Front Panel Overview 4

FIGURE 1-4 Back Panel Overview 5

FIGURE 1-5 Optional Graphics Accelerators and Installed IEEE 1394 and USB Card 6

FIGURE 1-6 Cabling the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation 7

FIGURE 2-1 Installation Process Flow Diagram 12

FIGURE 2-2 Sun USB Type-6 Keyboard Sleep Key and Power Off Selection Menu 17

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Tables

TABLE 1-1 Powering Off the Workstation 9

TABLE 2-1 Information for Setting Up the Solaris Desktop Operating System 14

TABLE 2-2 Power-Indicator LED Status 16

TABLE 4-1 Troubleshooting Procedures 35

TABLE 4-2 Sun Web Sites and Telephone Numbers 40

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Preface

The Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide (817-5119-11) describes how to set up the Operating System and use the preinstalled software applications for Sun Blade 2500 workstations with silver bezels. This book is written for users who have experience installing workstation hardware and software.

The Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide is translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. The translated documentation is located on the Sun Blade 2500 Hardware Documentation CD (705-1198). The Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide and its translations are also located at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation/

How This Book Is Organized

The document is organized into chapters as follows:

Chapter 1 describes unpacking, cabling, and powering on the workstation.

Chapter 2 describes setup and use of the preinstalled Solaris™ Operating System.

Chapter 3 describes how to start the preinstalled software applications.

Chapter 4 describes workstation troubleshooting.

Using UNIX Commands

The Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide might not contain all of the information needed to perform basic UNIX

commands and procedures such as shutting down

the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

See one or more of the following for additional UNIX commands:

■ Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

■ Sun Blade 2500 Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual (817-5117)

■ Other software documentation that you received with your system

■ Solaris Operating System documentation, which is at

http://docs.sun.com

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Typographic Conventions

Typeface* Meaning Examples

AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files,

and directories; on-screen computer output

AaBbCc123 What you type, when contrasted

with on-screen computer output

AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or terms,

words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.

*The settings on your browser might differ from these settings.

Edit your.login file. Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

% su

Password:

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do replace

command-line variables. To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell Prompt

C shell machine-name%

C shell superuser machine-name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell $

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser #

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Setting Up the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation

This chapter includes information about the following topics:

■ Safety and Compliance Information

■ Planning the Installation Process

■ Unpacking the Workstation

■ Cabling the Workstation

■ Powering On the Workstation

■ Powering Off the Workstation

Safety and Compliance Information

Read the document, Important Safety Information for Sun Hardware Systems (816-7190). The document is included with the Sun Blade 2500 workstation.

More safety and compliance information can be found in the Sun Blade 2500 Safety and Compliance Guide (817-5120). This guide is available online at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation/

Planning the Installation Process

Use the following flowchart as a process tool to assist you with installation of the Sun Blade 2500 workstation.

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