NI-VXI Software Installation and Configuration
Chapter 3
VME-SB2020/NI-VXI/Solaris Getting Started
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Installing and Loading the NI-VXI Software for Solaris 2.x
The instructions in this section are specific to users of the Solaris 2.x platform. If your Solaris
platform is Solaris 1.x, refer instead to the previous section Installing and Loading the NI-VXI
Software for Solaris 1.x.
Upgrading from NI-VXI Version 1.0 for Solaris 2.x
If you are upgrading from NI-VXI Version 1.0, it is important to perform the following steps
before installing the new version.
1. Move any files from your current NI-VXI directory that you wish to keep. The following
steps will remove the current NI-VXI directory, so you will need to move any files that you
have modified and place them in a temporary directory.
2. Issue the following command to remove the old package:
/usr/sbin/pkgrm NIvxi
3. Modify any environment variables or program paths to point to the new NI-VXI directory.
Starting with NI-VXI Version 2.1, the default NI-VXI directory is
/opt/NICsbmxi
.
Therefore, you will need to change any references to
/opt/NIvxi
, or whichever alternative
directory you had chosen.
4. Continue with the installation as described in the following sections.
Installing the NI-VXI Software for Solaris 2.x
Log on as super-user (root privileges needed).
Use one of the following three commands as applies to your system:
•
If you are not running volume management, type the following command:
/usr/sbin/pkgadd -d /dev/diskette
.
Caution:
If you are running volume management, you will need to run
volcheck
to detect
the disk in the floppy drive. Due to the manner in which the data is encoded on
the disk,
volcheck
will warn you that the disk is unformatted. Do not select to
format the disk. Simply cancel out of the warning.
•
If you are running volume management, and you have Version 2.3 or higher, type the
following command:
/usr/sbin/pkgadd -d /vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabeled
