User manual SONY VAIO VGN-TT298Y QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] The SONY Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 Owner's Guide describes your SONY Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 workstation. It also refers to other documents that you have received with your computer and its system software. How to Use This Guide Use this guide to learn about these things: how to start up your system how to interact with your workstation how to expand your workstation by adding internal peripherals like memory cards and disk drives how to determine the cause of problems with the system hardware. This guide will either give specic directions for each of these matters or direct you to other documents or online resources that will explain how to do these things. When to Use This Guide Use this guide after you have installed your system. To install your system follow the instructions in the SONY Apollo 9000 Model 720/730 Installation Guide. 1-2 January 1991 . . . Edition 1. How This Guide Is Organized Each chapter contains specic information about your system. [. . . ] (For information on adding disks and mounting le systems, see the System Administration Tasks Manual). To transfer les, between the netdist server and client systems, set up ftp (le transfer protocol) in the \anonymous" mode. Anonymous ftp is not the only method you can use to transfer les, but it provides a fast, eective vehicle for le transfer among networked systems. If you do not have anonymous ftp on your system, you can set it up using sam(1M) or by consulting the manual Installing and Maintaining NS-ARPA Services. Putting New Applications on Your Workstation 4-23 Setting Up a Network Distribution Server 1. If you have not already done so, read the preceding section \Before Setting Up a Network Distribution Server". On the server, create the directory /netdist. 700 if it does not already exist. (The netdist program will build a hierarchy under this directory that includes a sub-directory labeled 800; however, you'll actually be loading 700 lesets. The updist program does not distinguish between Series 700 and 800. ) Note If you are also setting up the server to distribute Series 300/400 or 800 software, make sure those lesets are loaded into a directory other than /netdist. 700. Name the distribution directory for the other series /netdist. Since the updist program is able to distinguish between 300/400 and 800 lesets, both of these architectures can be loaded into the same directory. If you specify the /netdist directory when you run updist and you load both Series 300 and 800 lesets, the updist program creates separate subtrees for 300 and 800 under /netdist. 3. See inetd. sec(5) in the SONY-UX Reference for details. Getting More Information For additional information on the netdist daemon, see netdistd(1M) in the SONY-UX Reference. For additional information on using or setting up anonymous ftp, see sam(1M) or Installing and Maintaining NS-ARPA Services. For additional information on disk space, see the SONY-UX System Administration Concepts Manual. For additional information on networking hardware, see available hardware conguration manuals and data sheets, such as the SONY9000 Series 300 Hardware Conguration Guide. 4-26 Putting New Applications on Your Workstation Shutting Down the Network Distribution Server You'll need to shutdown an existing netdist server before updating it to distribute a new version of software. Failure to do so can cause the update or updist program to terminate and trigger a core dump. Procedure 1. The netdistd daemon spawns a child process to handle each incoming update request. Thus, if three update requests are being serviced, four copies of the netdistd daemon are running (one parent and three child processes). Determine which process is the parent process by viewing the le in /usr/adm/netdist. log. The line showing the parent process in the log le will look something like this: netdistd. 560 14:59:46. . . Started on port 2107 Lines in the log le beginning with netdistd indicate a \parent" daemon. The parent daemon's process ID (PID) is the number immediately following netdistd (in the example above, this number is 560). (see the following section \Checking the netdist. log File" for additional information on the netdist. log le. ) 2. Kill the original parent daemon using the PID number (see kill(1) in the SONY-UX Reference), and wait for any child daemons to terminate normally. [. . . ] If your workstation \freezes up" while it is booting and displays one of the patterns in this table, you must replace one of more of the system's components. 6-20 Troubleshooting Table 6-5. LED Codes Which Indicate That a Component Must Be Replaced 87654321 oooxeeee ooxoeeee ooxxeeee oxooeeee oxxooooo oxxoooox oxxoooxo oxxoooxx oxxooxoo oxxooxox oxxooxxo oxxooxxx xoxxooxo xoxxoxox xoxxoxxo xoxxoxxx xoxxxooe Component To Be Replaced Processor card Processor card Processor card Processor card SIMM card in slot A1 SIMM card in slot A2 SIMM card in slot B1 SIMM card in slot B2 SIMM card in slot C1 SIMM card in slot C2 SIMM card in slot D1 SIMM card in slot D2 I/O card Processor card Processor card or one of the SIMM cards Processor card or I/O card Processor card or I/O card x = ON, o = OFF, e = either ON or OFF Note The LED patterns displayed during the selftests are not related in any way to the patterns described in \Understanding the LEDs" in Chapter 2. Those patterns apply only when the system has successfully booted SONY-UX. Troubleshooting 6-21 Running the SAX (System Acceptance Exerciser) Tests SAX is an online system-level exerciser. You will use SAX in its CIT (Customer Installation Test) mode to verify that your system is correctly installed and congured. [. . . ]