Installing and Using Applications
Customizing the Operating System
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
1.
Press the power on button.
2.
When the OpenBoot start-up screen is displayed, press
Pause-A
.
Tadpole S3 SPARCbook, keyboard present
ROM Rev 2.15 V1.00
32 MB memory installed, Serial #10683270
Ethernet address 0:0:83:a3:3:86, Host ID: Host ID:
80a30386
Initializing memory -
Type help for more information
ok
3.
Enter the following commands:
ok
create no-resume?
ok boot -r
The
-r
option causes the SPARCbook to carry out hardware
reconfiguration. In this example, the SPARCbook detects the external
CD-ROM at target ID 6 and creates the necessary special file
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0
to allow the CD-ROM’s filesystem(s) to be
accessed.
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Creating Device Files – On a Live System
It may be necessary to add an external CD-ROM drive to a SPARCbook
without powering the system down in order to allow uninterrupted
access to available SPARCbook filesystems.
In this case, the device file described above can be created as follows:
1.
Become superuser.
2.
Enter the following commands:
# drvconfig -i sd
# disks
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Create the Mount-Point and Mount Your CD-ROM
To do this, login as root and enter the following commands:
#
cd /
#
mkdir /cdrom
#
mount -r /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom
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Installing the Packages
The
pkgadd
command is used to install the required packages. For
example, to add a package to a Solaris 2.5.1 release, type:
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