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80 Solaris 7 11/99 Sun Hardware Platform Guide • November 1999
3. To run the viewing script, type:
4. Select the first video clip you want to see.
5. Before you view another video clip, dismiss the viewer that displayed the
previous video clip.
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Running an AnswerBook2 Server from the CD
To run the AnswerBook2 server directly from the CD, perform the following steps:
1. Insert the Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD into your CD-ROM
drive.
2. Open a command window and become superuser using the
su
command and
superuser password.
3. Change directory to the top level of the CD-ROM volume.
This should look similar to:
where cdrom is the mount-point for the CD-ROM device and flash_answerbook is the
name of the CD-ROM volume.
Among other things, this directory contains the executable script
ab2cd
.
4. Run the following command:
5. If you have existing AnswerBook2 documentation collections installed on your
server machine and you want the CD-driven server software to recognize those
collections, use the following command:
This causes the CD-driver server software to scan for other collections installed on
this system and add them to its database.
% ./watch-videos
# cd /
cdrom
/
flash_answerbook
# ./ab2cd
# ./ab2cd -s