Sun Microsystems Fire 880, Owner'S Manual

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Preface
The Sun Fire 880 Server Owner’s Guide answers your questions about setting up and
running the Sun Fire™ 880 server. Features and options, system setup and
installation, hardware configuration, and system administration topics for the
Sun Fire 880 server are covered in this manual.
This manual presents information in a modular format designed to answer the type
of questions that you might ask while installing, configuring, and using the
Sun Fire 880 server. Look at the titles of the modules and you’ll find the cue words
that direct you to the categories of questions and answers, such as:
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How to . . . How do I do something?
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About . . . Is there more information about this topic?
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Reference for . . . Where can I find reference material for something?
You determine how much or how little of the information you need to read.
Using the table of contents or the task list on the first page of each chapter, you can
quickly find a specific topic or task. The information modules are brief; however,
they are interrelated and refer to other modules that you may want to read. For
instance, if you’re installing a disk drive and you’re already familiar with the task,
you could go to “How to Install a Disk Drive” and follow the installation procedure.
But if you need more background information before performing the task, you
should first read “About Internal Disk Drives.”