NEC Express 5800/120Eh N8100 SERIES, User Manual

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Installing and Using Utilities 6-7
– Off-line Maintenance Utility Bootable FD
Creates a support disk for activating the Off-line Maintenance Utility.
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Setup Maintenance Partition
Maintenance partition is a specific partition for the server and created on your system disk.
About 55MB of the maintenance partition includes the various maintenance utilities and
executable commands.
In this menu, you can create the maintenance partition, install the various utilities, and
update the utilities. The maintenance utilities installed in the maintenance partition are
system diagnostics and Off-line Maintenance Utility.
IMPORTANT:
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Do not reset or turn off the server while the running this menu. If
the processing is discontinued, the system becomes unable to start.
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The existence of the maintenance partition may be identified from
the operating system. In order to retain the Configuration Data, do
not delete the partition.
NOTES:
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The maintenance partition, once created, will not be recreated
again.
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When the maintenance partition does not exist, some menu items
do not appear.
– Create Maintenance Partition
NEC EXPRESSBUILDER creates about 55MB of the maintenance partition on the
system disk (or disk array system) as work area. The various utilities are installed when
the maintenance partition is created successfully or when the maintenance partition is
already created.
– Install Maintenance Partition Utilities
Various utilities are installed in the maintenance partition from the CD-ROM.
– Update Maintenance Partition Utilities
Various utilities are copied in the Maintenance Partition from the update disk. This
menu is only used when the update disk is supplied from your service representative or
attached with your system.
– FDISK
Execute FDISK command of ROM-DOS system. You can create/delete partitions, etc.