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Equinox ESP-2 MI Serial Hub Installation Guide
AIX
The following sections contain procedures for installing the ESP driver on an AIX release 4.3
or 5.1 system.
Installing Directly from CD-ROM (AIX 5.1 only)
This procedure is valid only on AIX release 5.1 systems.
1. Mount the CD-ROM volume using the following command:
mount -v cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0/mnt
2. Change to the RPMS directory using the following command:
cd /mnt/RPMS/AIX51
3. Install the RPM using the following command:
rpm -ivh ./espx-3.06.aix.5.1.ppc.rpm
4. Discover and initialize the ESP units using the following command:
/etc/eqnx/espcfg
Creating AIX ESP Installation Diskettes on AIX
1. Mount the CD-ROM volume using the following command:
mount -v cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0/mnt
2. Run the following commands:
cd /mnt
./makeunix.sh
3. Once the AIX installation diskette is created, refer to the following
fi
les for detailed
installation instructions:
/drivers/esp/aix43/readme.txt
/drivers/esp/aix51/readme.txt
Creating AIX ESP Installation Diskettes on DOS
1. Load the Equinox SuperSerial Software CD into your DOS CD-ROM drive.
2. Set your default drive to the DOS CD-ROM drive letter.
3. Run the command
MAKEUNIX
and select the appropriate Equinox product and operating
system for which diskettes are needed.
4. Once the AIX installation diskette is created, refer to the following
fi
les for detailed
installation instructions:
/drivers/esp/aix43/readme.txt
/drivers/esp/aix51/readme.txt
