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Your workstation should be installed and ready to use. If you
have not yet installed your workstation, please see the Hardware Installation Guide that came with it.
Once your workstation is installed, this section explains how to start
it for the first time. It guides you through selecting the
startup procedure, getting required information, and turning on your
computer.
If this is not the first time your workstation has been
started, go to “Starting Your Workstation After the First Time” later in this chapter.
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Throughout this guide, you will see the term system administrator. The system administrator is someone who manages your
system, taking care of such tasks as adding peripheral devices, adding
new users, and doing system backups. In general, this person (who may
also be called the system operator or something similar) is the one to
go to with questions about implementing your software.
However, if you are the only user on a single-user workstation, then
whenever this guide refers you to the system administrator, you should
be able to get help from the system administration manuals that you
purchased with your system (especially System Administration Tasks). Your HP support
engineer can also provide installation and maintenance help, in
accordance with your support contract.
Your workstation includes a tool called System Administration Manager
(SAM) that has complete online help to guide you through system
administration tasks. Use SAM only if a system administrator is
not available. To start SAM, log in as the
superuser and type /usr/sbin/sam, then press Enter. For more
information about SAM, see System Administration Tasks.
Chapter 13 “Doing Advanced Tasks” lists advanced and system administration tasks, and
provides pointers for locating more information.
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Choosing the Startup Procedure.
If your workstation has preloaded software (HP VUE and the
HP-UX operating system are loaded on the hard disk at the factory),
the workstation is shipped with a yellow sticker covering the power
switch.
Follow the instructions in this section to start up a workstation with
preloaded software (also called "Instant Ignition").
If your workstation does not have preloaded software and you ordered
the HP-UX software separately, see your system administrator.
Installing HP-UX 10.0 contains installation instructions.
If your system does not have a hard disk installed, or if it has a hard
disk installed but you want your workstation to be a client node in an
HP-UX cluster, see your system administrator. The
System Administration Tasks manual contains
instructions for setting up clusters and client nodes.
Getting Required Information | |
Before you turn on your workstation, you should know the following
information. The workstation will request this information
when you start it for the first time, so that it can configure certain
system and networking parameters.
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If you do not have some of this information now, such as the host name
or Internet address, you can add or modify it later. Such modifications
should be made as soon as possible after initial installation. For
instructions, see “Modifying System Parameters”.
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The host name of your computer (sometimes called the
system name). The host name can be a simple name or an Internet
fully-qualified name. Get the host name from your system administrator.
Host name: _________________
If you are connecting your computer to a local area network, you need to
know your computer's Internet Protocol address (IP or
Internet address). This
is a four-part code (for example, 15.15.232.18) that uniquely
identifies your computer among all those located on your network or
any other network. Obtain this address from your system
administrator.
IP Address: _________________
The time zone where your computer is located (for example, Mountain Daylight
Savings Time). You don't need to know the standard abbreviation.
Time zone: _________________
The root password. Be sure to write it
down in a secure place. You will use this password when you log in as
superuser later in this chapter.
Optional. You can configure additional network parameters such
as the subnetwork mask, the network gateway, and the
Domain Name System name server. Ask your system
administrator if you should configure these parts of the network.
Subnetwork mask: (Optional) _________________
Network gateway host name: (Optional) _________________
Network gateway IP address: (Optional) _________________
Local domain name: (Optional) _________________
DNS server host name: (Optional) _________________
DNS server IP address: (Optional) _________________
Network Information Service domain name: (Optional) _________________
Optional. To save disk space, you may want your workstation to
be a font client. As a font client, your workstation uses
the font files on a network server rather than using the fonts
stored on its own hard disk, thus saving disk space. System RAM
usage is reduced for font clients but increased for font servers.
If you want your workstation to become a font client, ask your
system administrator for the name and IP address of the
network font server. If you do not choose to become
a font client, all fonts will still be available from your local
disk.
Font server name: (Optional) _________________
Font server IP address: (Optional) _________________
For more information, see HP VUE's online help. Click the Help
Manager control (the books and question mark icon) on the Front Panel
at the bottom of your screen. Then click
"HP Visual User Environment Version 3.0 Help", then click "General Configuration", then click "Network
Font Server". Also see the mk_fnt_clnt(1M) and
mk_fnt_srvr(1M) manual reference pages.
Turning on the Power | |
Turn on the power switch on the monitor. The power LED lights to
indicate that the power is on.
Turn on the power to any external peripherals, such as printers,
that are connected to your workstation.
Turn on the power button on your workstation. The
power LED lights to indicate that the power is on.
As your workstation starts up, it runs a series of self-tests.
For information about these self-tests, see the troubleshooting
chapter in your Owner's Guide.
After two or three minutes, many messages appear on your screen. These
messages pertain to hardware and software subsystems that are being
activated, and you should not need to respond to any of
the messages.
The first time you power up the workstation, a series of windows appear that prompt you for the information about
your workstation that you gathered in the previous section, such as your host name, IP address, time zone, and root password. Enter this information as it is requested.
If you do not set a host name now and instead accept the default host
name of unknown, you will get an error message when you log in.
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If you do not have the information when prompted for it, press
Enter. HP-UX then uses its default value for that question, and
you can add or modify the information later. Such modifications
should be made as soon as possible after initial installation. For
instructions, see “Modifying System Parameters”.
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When you have finished answering the questions, the workstation
completes its startup sequence.
Once your workstation is running, it will display one of
two ways to log in--the HP VUE login screen or a command line prompt.
To log in, follow the instructions in “Getting Started with HP VUE”. To
log in at the HP-UX command line, see “Logging In and Out of HP-UX”.
For help with using the mouse, see “Using a Mouse”.
Desktop or Runtime HP-UX? Your workstation may have been installed with a version of HP-UX
called "Desktop HP-UX." Your system administrator can tell you if you
have Desktop HP-UX or the standard Runtime HP-UX.
The Desktop version of HP-UX occupies less disk space than the Runtime
version because it does not install the full HP-UX functionality.
Desktop HP-UX contains most standard commands and networking,
including Internet Services, NFS, and core DCE.
However, UUCP and SLIP are not included, nor is functionality that is
primarily intended for multi-user or server
systems, such as disk quotas, auditing, or system accounting. Desktop
HP-UX also does not contain routines for compiling C or graphics
programs, the Key Shell (an interactive HP-UX shell), online manual
reference pages (man pages), or part of the standard online
help.
Your system administrator should be able to tell you which version of
HP-UX you have, and can install any additional functionality that you
might need.
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