
INSTALLING SOFTWARE
ADDING A NEW CONSOLE
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Network Setup menu. Press/click
B Rebuild System Files
to
display the Hardware Configuration screen.
Confirm your I/O port address and interrupt. Enter the 12
digit physical Ethernet address of your new network card.
Press
<F1>
to rebuild the system files with your current set-
tings.
Connecting Two OIS12 Networks Together
Connecting two OIS12 networks together involves many
detailed steps as listed below. A primary problem lies in the
fact that the two network definitions may be using the same
internal identifiers for different Servers and nodes. If you sim-
ply connected the two networks together, the network data-
bases would exchange definitions resulting in mismatched
and/or duplicate entries in the network database, the result
being erratic behaviour and
ghost
servers. Before beginning
the procedure listed below, you
must
be familiar with the QNX
operating system and OIS12.
To join two networks together the following procedure should
be used:
1. Ensure that ALL nodes in the combined network have
unique node numbers. For any nodes that have duplicate node
numbers, one node must be reloaded starting with QNX and
must be given a unique node number. This change to the node
should be done before performing the remainder of this proce-
dure and can be connected to the master network (see Step 3).
2. Ensure that ALL nodes have enough QNX licenses to sup-
port the total number of nodes in the combined network.
3. Choose one network to be the master network. The other
network will be called the source network. You will be transfer-
ring nodes from the source network to the master network one
at a time.
4. On one of the nodes on the source network, log into OIS12
as SYSOP.
5. Format a QNX floppy using the
Utilities-> Miscellaneous
Disk Utilities-> Format Media
from the OIS12 Main menu.
6. Open a shell. (
<Right>
click the mouse on the desktop (grey
background) and select
Programs-> Shell
from the Workspace
menu).
7. Change to the root user by typing
su <Enter>
, followed by
the root password (default is
root
).