Page 3 - Contents; Preface
iii Contents Preface vii 1. Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1–1 1.1 Safety Information 1–1 1.2 Planning the Installation 1–2 1.3 Unpacking the Workstation 1–3 1.3.1 Front Panel Overview 1–4 1.3.2 Back Panel Overview 1–5 1.4 Cabling the Workstation 1–6 1.5 Powering On the Workstation 1–8 1.6 ...
Page 4 - Setting Up the Preinstalled Software
iv Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 2.4 Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition 2–6 2.4.1 Installing Linux Operating System Drivers 2–7 2.4.2 Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers 2–9 2.4.3 Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers 2–10 2.4.3.1 ...
Page 7 - How This Book Is Organized
vii Preface The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide provides the information that you need to set up, power on, and configure the workstation hardware and software. How This Book Is Organized This guide is organized into the following chapters: Chapter 1 contains instructions on unpacking...
Page 8 - Shell Prompts
viii Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 Shell Prompts Typographic Conventions Shell Prompt C shell machine-name % C shell superuser machine-name # Bourne shell and Korn shell $ Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser # Typeface * * The settings on your browser might differ fro...
Page 9 - Related Documentation
Preface ix Related Documentation The document set for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation is described in the Where To Find Documentation sheet that is packed with your system, and all documents are posted at the product’s documentation site. See the following URL: http://www.sun.com/products-n- solutions/...
Page 10 - Third-Party Web Sites
x Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 Third-Party Web Sites Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in this document. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials that a...
Page 11 - Safety Information
1-1 C H A P T E R 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation This chapter includes information about the following topics: ■ Section 1.1, “Safety Information” on page 1-1 ■ Section 1.2, “Planning the Installation” on page 1-2 ■ Section 1.3, “Unpacking the Workstation” on page 1-3 ■ Section 1.4, “Cabl...
Page 12 - Planning the Installation
1-2 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 1.2 Planning the Installation Use the following flowchart as a process tool to assist you with installation of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. FIGURE 1-1 Flowchart for Installing the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Unpack the workstation and fam...
Page 13 - Unpacking the Workstation
Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1-3 1.3 Unpacking the Workstation Carefully unpack all workstation components from the packing cartons. The following items are contained in the package. ■ Sun Ultra 20 Workstation ■ Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Documentation, which includes the followin...
Page 14 - Front Panel Overview
1-4 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 1.3.1 Front Panel Overview FIGURE 1-3 Front Panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation TABLE 1-1 Front Panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Label Button/LED/Port Label Button/LED/port 1 Power button 4 Two USB ports 2 Power LED 5 Microphone-...
Page 15 - Back Panel Overview
Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1-5 1.3.2 Back Panel Overview FIGURE 1-4 Back Panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation TABLE 1-2 Back Panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Label Connector/Slot Label Connector/Slot 1 Power connector 7 Ethernet connector 2 Power switch 8 Four USB connec...
Page 16 - Cabling the Workstation
1-6 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 1.4 Cabling the Workstation FIGURE 1-5 illustrates the cable connections for the workstation. FIGURE 1-5 Cable Connections Connect the workstation and external devices in this order: 1. Connect the workstation power cord to a grounded e...
Page 17 - Note –
Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1-7 4. Connect the monitor cable as follows: ■ If a PCI Express graphics card is not installed in the top PCI slot, connect the monitor to the onboard video connector. See the top of FIGURE 1-6 . ■ If a PCI Express graphics card is installed in the t...
Page 18 - Powering On the Workstation; Tip –; Turn on the power to the monitor and to all external devices.
1-8 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 1.5 Powering On the Workstation Tip – If you are installing optional internal components such as additional DIMMs, PCI cards, optical drives, or hard drives, install those components before you power on the workstation. If you are not i...
Page 19 - Powering Off the Workstation; Save your data and close any open applications.; Caution –
Chapter 1 Setting Up the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation 1-9 1.6 Powering Off the Workstation 1. Save your data and close any open applications. 2. Read all of the following power-off options before powering off the workstation: ■ Power off the workstation by using the operating system shutdown command or ...
Page 21 - Software Installation; Preparing for Installation
2-1 C H A P T E R 2 Software Installation This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 2.1, “Preparing for Installation” on page 2-1 ■ Section 2.1.2, “Setting up the BIOS for Operating System Installation” on page 2-4 ■ Section 2.2, “Installing the Operating System” on page 2-5 ■ Section ...
Page 23 - Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk; Back up all data that you want to save on the hard drive.
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-3 2.1.1 Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk If you do not have enough space on the boot partition to install an operating system, the Erase Primary Boot Hard Disk option on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD main menu enables you to erase other installed op...
Page 24 - Setting up the BIOS for Windows XP or Solaris 10; Setting up the BIOS for a Linux Operating System; Select the Advanced BIOS Features menu.
2-4 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 2.1.2 Setting up the BIOS for Operating System Installation If you plan to install an operating system onto the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, you need to make sure that the BIOS is set up correctly before installing the software. See the se...
Page 25 - Installing the Operating System
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-5 2.2 Installing the Operating System Your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation has the Solaris 10 Operating System preinstalled. You can also choose to install one of the supported operating systems (or later versions) for Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. ■ Solaris 10 Operating Syste...
Page 26 - Running the up2date Utility
2-6 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 2.3 Running the up2date Utility If you are installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux software, run the up2date utility after installing the operating system and before installing the video drivers from the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplem...
Page 27 - Installing Linux Operating System Drivers; Log in to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation as superuser.
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-7 2.4.1 Installing Linux Operating System Drivers The order of installation for Linux operating system and drivers is as follows: 1. Remove the preinstalled Solaris operating system from the server. See Section 2.1.1, “Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk” on page 2-3...
Page 29 - Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers; directory by typing the following; When xserver choices are displayed, select the default
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-9 2.4.2 Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers The following instructions are for installing drivers if you are performing a fresh installation of the Solaris 10 operating system. You do not need to reinstall the drivers if you are using the preinstalled versio...
Page 30 - Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers
2-10 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 2.4.3 Installing Windows XP Operating System Drivers The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD contains NVRAID, NVIDIA display, and NVIDIA chipset drivers for Windows XP. If you are installing NVRAID drivers, you will need to use th...
Page 31 - Installing RAID Drivers Using XPReburn Script; file to that directory.
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-11 2.4.3.1 Installing RAID Drivers Using XPReburn Script The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD (705-1364) contains a script that allows you to create a new Windows XP CD with the needed RAID drivers. After the new CD is created, you can boot the CD and instal...
Page 32 - in; Installing RAID Drivers Using a Boot Diskette
2-12 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 5. Unzip the XpReburn_ version . zip file. For example: 6. Run the XpReburn script. For example: The script displays the driver files it expects to be located in the current directory. When all four driver files are downloaded into tha...
Page 33 - Creating a Boot Diskette for NVIDIA RAID Drivers; Configuring RAID in the BIOS
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-13 Creating a Boot Diskette for NVIDIA RAID Drivers To create a boot diskette for Windows XP 32- bit and 64-bit, you will need a Windows system with a CD drive and diskette drive. 1. On a Windows workstation, insert the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD. 2. C...
Page 34 - Installing Windows XP and NVIDIA RAID Drivers; Attach a USB floppy diskette drive to the workstation.
2-14 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 Installing Windows XP and NVIDIA RAID Drivers To install Windows XP with the NVIDIA RAID drivers on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: 1. Attach a USB floppy diskette drive to the workstation. 2. Insert a Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit install...
Page 35 - c. Follow the instructions in the installation software.
Chapter 2 Software Installation 2-15 b. Double-click the executable file. c. Follow the instructions in the installation software. 3. Do the following steps to install the display drivers: a. Change to the directory on the Supplemental CD by typing the following command: Where OS is XP32 or XP64. b....
Page 38 - Installation Flowchart
3-2 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 3.1.1 Licensing Information The Solaris 10 Operating System installed on your workstation requires no licensing fee. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation requires Solaris 10, HW 1 or a subsequent compatible version of Solaris software. For more...
Page 39 - for any late-breaking
Chapter 3 Setting Up the Preinstalled Software 3-3 3.1.4 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System Complete the following steps to configure the preinstalled Solaris 10 x86 Platform Edition. 1. Power on the workstation. See Section 1.5, “Powering On the Workstation” on page 1-8 . 2. A...
Page 41 - Sun Studio Software
Chapter 3 Setting Up the Preinstalled Software 3-5 3.2 Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software The following minimum versions of development software is preinstalled or preloaded on your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation: Sun Studio 10, Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7. Yo...
Page 42 - Sun Java Studio Creator
3-6 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 3.2.2 Sun Java Studio Creator The Sun Java Studio Creator development environment (formerly "Project Rave") is the next-generation tool for Java application development. This product combines the power of 100% Java standards wit...
Page 43 - NetBeans IDE
Chapter 3 Setting Up the Preinstalled Software 3-7 3.2.4 NetBeans IDE The NetBeans IDE includes Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development capabilities. This new release allows developers to not only develop applications in the web tier but also includes Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and w...
Page 44 - Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software; Get the Solaris Media Kit for your workstation.; document that comes with; Reinstalling Other Software
3-8 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 You should make and keep a full backup of the operating system, which can be used to restore your system if it is ever needed. Instructions for backing up your Operating System are included in the Solaris 10 System Administration Collec...
Page 45 - Hard Drive Mirroring
Chapter 3 Setting Up the Preinstalled Software 3-9 3.3.4 Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive Information about hard drive backups can be found in the Solaris 10 System Administration Guide. To obtain this guide, refer to the following web site: http://docs.sun.com/ 3.3.5 Hard Dri...
Page 48 - To start the RIS setup program, type the following command:; image to this remote installation server“.
A-2 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 A.1 Creating a 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2) RIS Image This section tells you how to create a Windows XP 32-bit image on a RIS server and then add platform specific drivers to the image. All drivers for this procedure are located o...
Page 49 - for the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD image you are creating. For example:
Appendix A Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images A-3 7. In the “Windows Installation Image Folder Name“ screen, type a descriptive name for the Windows XP SP2 32-bit CD image you are creating. For example: 8. In the “Friendly Description and Help Text” screen, type a desc...
Page 50 - Change these entries in the; Remove the following entry from the
A-4 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 A.1.3 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Setting Files To modify settings files, create driver directories, and copy drivers to their directories in the Windows XP SP2 32-bit image on the RIS server, do the following steps. The ristndrd...
Page 51 - Add the following entries to the; directory for the RIS image, type the following command:; directory tree, type the following commands.
Appendix A Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images A-5 3. Add the following entries to the ristndrd.sif file : 4. To create the $oem$ directory for the RIS image, type the following command: The $oem$ directory will have a subdirectory tree structure with the following dire...
Page 52 - file is; and
A-6 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 a. To copy the chipset zip package to the RIS server, type the following command: b. To unzip the package, type the following command: 6. To copy the chipset drivers to the proper directories, type the following commands: 7. The txtsetu...
Page 53 - Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image; Installing Windows XP 64-bit onto the RIS Server
Appendix A Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images A-7 A.2 Creating a 64-bit Windows XP RIS Image This section tells you how to create a Windows XP 64-bit image on a RIS server and then add platform specific drivers to the image. All drivers for this procedure located on th...
Page 54 - client installation screens, and overwrite the old ones“.
A-8 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 8. In the “Friendly Description and Help Text“ screen, type a description and help text (for future end-user reference). 9. In the “Previous Client Installation Screens Found” screen, choose “Use the new client installation screens, and...
Page 56 - To copy Windows XP 64-bit driver files into the
A-10 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 The $oem$ directory will have a subdirectory tree structure with the following directory names: 5. To copy Windows XP 64-bit driver files into the $oem$ directory tree, type the following commands. The drivers are located in the follow...
Page 58 - Either power on or reboot the workstation.
A-12 Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide • April 2006 A.3 Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation This section tells you how to install a RIS image onto a client workstation using PXE boot. 1. Either power on or reboot the workstation. 2. During POST, press the F12 key to enter P...
