NEC HX4500, Configuration Manual

Page 1: ...N e t w o r k O p e r a t i n g S y s t e m C o n f i g u r a t i o n G u i d e SERVER HX4500...

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Page 3: ...N e t w o r k O p e r a t i n g S y s t e m C o n f i g u r a t i o n G u i d e Server HX4500...

Page 4: ...d applications must be determined by the customer and is not warranted by NEC CSD To allow for design and specification improvements the information in this document is subject to change at any time w...

Page 5: ...m 2 7 Driver Installation for the Intel PRO 100 LAN Adapter 2 7 Installation While Installing Windows NT 2 8 Installation for a Running Windows NT System 2 8 Driver Installation for the 3COM 3C905TX L...

Page 6: ...ivers 4 9 Configuring the Intel PRO 100 and 3COM 3C905TX LAN Cards 4 10 Configuring Additional Hard Disks 4 10 Where To Go From Here 4 11 Installing and Configuring UnixWare 7 0 5 1 Overview 5 2 Requi...

Page 7: ...roduct Restrictions 6 2 Known Problems and Workarounds 6 2 Notes On Novell NetWare v4 11 6 3 Notes On Tape Backup 6 3 Notes On Mounting CD ROM Volumes 6 3 Mounting and Unmounting the CD ROM 6 4 Reconf...

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Page 9: ...1 Introduction About This Guide Document Conventions How This Guide Is Organized Related Documents Where to Go From Here...

Page 10: ...nized Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter contains general information about your system and about this guide Chapter 2 Installing Windows NT v4 0 Enterprise Edition This chapter contains supplemental...

Page 11: ...d to complete your installation successfully System User s Guide This guide provides a quick reference to information about your system Its goal is to familiarize you with your system and the tasks ne...

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Page 13: ...lling Windows NT 4 0 Enterprise Edition Required Diskettes Disk Subsystem Driver Installation AIC7895 Disk Controller Driver Installation Disk Array Controller Driver and Monitor Utility Installation...

Page 14: ...ed for the devices listed in Table 2 1 are located on the ExpressBuilder CD To create the required diskettes perform Easy Setup or Custom Setup on the ExpressBuilder CD Table 2 1 lists the required di...

Page 15: ...rd SCSI controller AIC7895 then Windows NT is installed using the Windows NT driver on the Windows NT 4 0 OEM Disk NEC EXPRESSBUILDER NO 1 The Adaptec 78XX Family Manager Set driver located on Windows...

Page 16: ...river that was loaded during the installation is required for proper operation Overwriting this driver will cause the computer to be inoperable Disk Array Controller Driver and Monitor Utility Install...

Page 17: ...drive A and press ENTER 6 When the message You have chosen to configure a SCSI adapter for use with Windows NT using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer appears with DAC960NT SYS...

Page 18: ...TX adapter driver is installed during the setup phase of Windows NT installation To do this complete the text phase of the installation and reboot the system When the system comes up it will be runnin...

Page 19: ...select AutoNegotiate for the cable type Click OK 9 If TCP IP is to be used supply the IP address information 10 Close and restart the system Driver Installation for the Intel PRO 100 LAN Adapter If an...

Page 20: ...EXPRESSBUILDER NO 2 into Drive A and type A IntelPRO100 Click OK 4 When the Select OEM Option dialog box appears select the appropriate software for your LAN adapter Select Intel EtherExpress PRO 100...

Page 21: ...river Installation While Installing Windows NT The 3C905TX adapter driver is installed during the setup phase of Windows NT installation To do this complete the text phase of the installation and rebo...

Page 22: ...dd 5 In the Select Network Adapter dialog box click Have Disk 6 When the Insert Disk dialog box appears insert Windows NT 4 0 OEM Disk for EXPRESSBUILDER NO 2 into Drive A Type A 3C905TX Click OK 7 Wh...

Page 23: ...nboard SCSI Disk Controllers AIC7895 Configuration Checklist Installing the Novell NetWare v4 11 Network Operating System Configuring SMC9432TX LAN Card Configuring Intel PRO 100 LAN Card Configuring...

Page 24: ...rs required for the devices listed in Table 3 1 are located on the EXPRESSBUILDER CD To create the required diskettes perform Easy Setup or Custom Setup on the EXPRESSBUILDER CD Table 3 1 lists the re...

Page 25: ...ed with a single 50MB MS DOS partition and MS DOS is preinstalled on this drive If you have a NEC SecuRAID 530 Mylex AcceleRAID 1100 Disk Array Controller preinstalled on your system it is configured...

Page 26: ...skette created in Steps 2 and 3 Use the DOS fdisk command to create a small active DOS partition on Drive C If you do not intend to use the DOS partition a minimum size of 20 MB is recommended 5 Insta...

Page 27: ...scdex D aspicd0 M 12 L R Ensure the following command is not in your c autoexec bat file c dos smartdrv exe 4 Reboot the system Configuration Checklist Certain configuration information must be availa...

Page 28: ...__ 3 Country Code and corresponding Code Page Choose the Country Code and corresponding Code Page from the following selections Circle one Country Code and one of the corresponding Code Pages Country...

Page 29: ...61 G Portugal 351 H Finland 358 1 United States English 437 2 Multilingual 850 1 United States English 437 2 Multilingual 850 1 United States English 437 2 Multilingual 850 1 Multilingual 850 2 Nordic...

Page 30: ...None 5 LAN Adapter Choose which type of LAN adapter is installed in the LAN adapter slot Circle one selection Intel PRO 100 3COM 3C905 SMC9432TX No adapter to configure 6 IPX Network Number Record th...

Page 31: ...e 6 Highlight NetWare Server Installation from the Select the type of installation desired menu and press ENTER 7 Highlight NetWare 4 11 from the NetWare Installation Utility menu and press ENTER 8 Hi...

Page 32: ...d press ENTER 20 You should now be in a menu labeled Save Existing File C NWSERVER AIC7870 dsk 21 Highlight No and press ENTER 22 A Warning menu is displayed 23 Press ENTER 24 You should now be in a m...

Page 33: ...menu follow the appropriate procedure listed below to configure your LAN card s If you are configuring a SMC9432TX LAN card go to the section Configuring SMC9432TX LAN Card If you are configuring an I...

Page 34: ...ress ENTER Note After the driver is loaded with Line_speed 10 all subsequent loads of the driver default to 10Mbps line speed If another SMC9432TX LAN card is installed at 100Mbps line speed the load...

Page 35: ...and for it must include line_speed 100 9 Using the arrow keys highlight Save parameters and continue Press ENTER 10 10 At the Do you want to select an additional network driver prompt select Yes if yo...

Page 36: ...ure Press ENTER Repeat Step 19 in the Installing the Novell NetWare v4 11 Network Operating System section in this chapter If you do not have another LAN card to configure select No and press ENTER 12...

Page 37: ...ve and press ENTER 3 Highlight Create a Registration Diskette and press ENTER 4 Follow the prompts until you return to the Other Installation Options menu 5 Highlight Continue installation and press E...

Page 38: ...etWare delete the line starting with Load TAPEDAI DSK in the STARTUP NCF file 9 Press ESC twice to exit the installation program 10 Highlight Yes and press ENTER Downing the Server You should now down...

Page 39: ...backup your server Also you should restart the server before backing up See the section Notes on Tape Backup for more information Where To Go From Here You have finished the installation and configura...

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Page 41: ...4 Installing and Configuring SCO UNIX 5 04 Overview Required Diskettes Installing Optional Hardware Where to Go From Here Installing and Configuring System Software...

Page 42: ...than the ones supplied on the SCO 5 04 CD You will need newer drivers if any of the devices listed Table 4 1 are installed on your system Also listed in Table 4 1 are the required diskette labels Tabl...

Page 43: ...erver Rel 5 04 Software With On Board SCSI Controller and with Adaptec 3940 Controller in the System in this chapter NEC SecuRAID 530 Mylex AcceleRAID 1100 Disk Array Controller Run the SCU RCU after...

Page 44: ...sks JBOD The primary boot drive is formatted with a single 50MB MS DOS partition and MS DOS is preinstalled on this drive If you want to reconfigure the size of the DOS partition perform the following...

Page 45: ...IX OpenServer Rel 5 04 Handbook to install the operating system Chapter 2 of the SCO OpenServer Rel 5 04 Handbook Installation Guide includes an installation checklist to assist you in installing or u...

Page 46: ...y system The procedure basically follows the standard SCO UNIX installation with some variations During the installation when prompted insert the SCO UNIX driver diskette for the Disk Array Controller...

Page 47: ...ith the new driver mdac Replacing a driver may result in a kernel which does not work Please enter r if you wish to try replacement a if you want to use character major 6 which character major number...

Page 48: ...enServer Rel 5 04 Enterprise System is complete Press ENTER to continue Press ENTER to continue The system displays Safe to Power Off or Press any Key to Reboot This concludes the installation of SCO...

Page 49: ...he EXPRESS BUILDER CD To load an 3COM 3C905TX or Intel PRO 100 LAN card driver insert the driver diskette into your disk drive and logon to the SCO Open Server graphical interface Use the following pr...

Page 50: ...guration is complete and the current networking configuration is displayed select Hardware from the menu bar then select Exit 11 At the message the UNIX kernel must be relinked select YES to relink th...

Page 51: ...mkdev hd build a kernel reboot the system mkdev hd mkdev fs mountall Refer to the on line SCO man page for information on the mkdev ADM command Where To Go From Here You have finished the installatio...

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Page 53: ...5 Installing and Configuring UnixWare 7 0 Overview Required Diskettes Preparation Installing Optional Hardware Installing and Configuring System Software...

Page 54: ...lex AcceleRAID 250 or 1100 NEC SecuRAID 210 or 530 adapter card are generated from the EXPRESSBUILDER CDROM shipped with the system Note Read the System Release Notes for the latest system information...

Page 55: ...ion Checklist Configuration Checklist Step Information 1 File Server Name Record the file server name for this system File server name _________________________ 2 IP Address Assign an IP address for e...

Page 56: ...ation and the System User s Guide shipped with your system for installation and configuration information The Upgrading Your System chapter of your System User s Guide includes a table containing the...

Page 57: ...7Installation Guide includes an installation checklist to assist you in installing or upgrading to UnixWare 7 Note The boot floppy should be the one generated from the EXPRESSBUILDER CD and no defboot...

Page 58: ...Do not enter the DCU Press F10 12 Enter the System Node Name This will be the name of the server Press F10 13 At Installation Method choose Install from CD ROM Press F10 14 At Disk Configuration use w...

Page 59: ...5 At License agreement choose accept Press F10 26 At Installation Press F10 This concludes the installation of UnixWare 7 onto and SCSI hard disk drive Remove the diskette and reboot the UnixWare 7 op...

Page 60: ...talling or upgrading to UnixWare 7 Installation of UnixWare 7 involves installation of a disk array driver for your disk array system The procedure basically follows the standard UnixWare 7 installati...

Page 61: ...o not enter the DCU Press F10 12 Enter the System Node Name This will be the name of the server Press F10 13 At Installation Method choose Install from CD ROM Press F10 14 At Disk Configuration use wh...

Page 62: ...he system drive 0 boot drive cache policy to write back until after the installation completes Installation of Tape Drives After the installation of UnixWare 7 is complete ensure the tape device is co...

Page 63: ...e UnixWare 7 Installation Handbook for information on installing and configuring LAN cards Where To Go From Here You have finished the installation and configuration of the UnixWare 7 system software...

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Page 65: ...6 Release Notes Product Restrictions Known Problems and Workarounds Notes On Novell NetWare v4 11...

Page 66: ...g sys file device c dos setver exe device c dos himem sys dos high Make sure the following command is not in your c autoexec bat file c dos smartdrv exe When performing a multi tape backup if SBACKUP...

Page 67: ...the following commands at the SERVER_NAME prompt load tsa410 load tapedai load sbackup 5 If you have any problems see the Known Problems and Solutions section in this chapter Notes On Mounting CD ROM...

Page 68: ...Mounting and Unmounting the CD ROM Ensure the CD ROM media is inserted in the CD ROM drive and type the following load cdrom cd device list cd mount volume_name To unmount the CD ROM volume type cd di...

Page 69: ...A Reconfiguring the DOS Partition...

Page 70: ...and applications If you want to reconfigure the size of the DOS partition perform the following procedure Note When reconfiguring the DOS partition all data on non removable disk drive C will be lost...

Page 71: ...RAID 5 4 configuring the Intel PRO 100 and 3COM 3C905TX LAN cards 5 11 installation of CD ROM drives 5 10 installation of tape drives 5 10 installing and configuring system software 5 5 installing op...

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