Sun Microsystems Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire 12K Installation Guide

Sun™ Fire 15K/12K Dynamic

Reconfiguration Installation Guide

and Release Notes

Solaris 8 2/02

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Preface

This guide contains instructions for installing the dynamic reconfiguration (DR)
software on Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 12K systems that are running the Solaris 8
2/02 operating environment; and release notes for DR.

Before You Read This Book

This guide is intended for the Sun Fire system administrator who has a working
knowledge of UNIX® systems, particularly those based on the Solaris™ operating
environment. If you do not have such knowledge, read the Solaris User and System
Administrator documentation provided with this system, and consider UNIX system
administration training.

How This Book Is Organized

This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1 describes the initial installation of the dynamic reconfiguration (DR)

software on the Sun Fire 15K/12K.
Chapter 2 contains the DR release notes.

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Using UNIX Commands

This document may not contain information on 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 this information:

■ Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

■ Online documentation for the Solaris software environment

■ Other software documentation that you received with your system

iv Sun Fire 15K/12K Dynamic Reconfiguration Installation Guide and Release Notes • April 2002

Typographic Conventions

Typeface or
Symbol

AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files,

AaBbCc123 What you type, when

AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or terms,

Meaning Examples

Edit your .login file.
and directories; on-screen
computer output

contrasted with on-screen
computer output

words to be emphasized

Command-line variable; replace
with a real name or value

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 this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell Prompt

C shell sc_name:sms-user:> or

domain_id:sms-user:>

C shell superuser sc_name:#ordomain_id:#
Bourne shell and Korn shell >
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser #

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