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| C H A P T E R 1 |
Where to Go for Peripheral Information |
In earlier editions, the Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals has presented information and procedures for installing and configuring peripherals on systems running the Solaris operating environment. Such peripherals include DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drives, disk drives, tape drives, and option cards or boards. This information is now covered more completely in a few basic Solaris documents, as outlined in this chapter.
Please see the references listed below to discover which document can now best answer your peripherals topic.
The Solaris 9 Installation Guide is found in the Solaris 9 Release and Installation Collection.
This book describes Solaris installation instructions and superuser information.
The Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide is found in the Solaris 9 User Collection.
This book describes how the Solaris operating environment and the Common Desktop Environment manage DVD, CD, and diskette devices, including how to use the Removable Media Manager software.
The System Administration Guide: Basic Administration is found in the Solaris 9 System Administrator Collection.
This book describes most topics previously presented in the Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals :
How to prepare a system for peripheral installation
How to create a /reconfigure file
Options for shutting down and booting a system--single, multiuser, and so on
How to use the format utility
Setting up a hard drive--adding, formatting, partitioning, and labelling
How to create, mount, and unmount a file system
Setting up a tape drive--adding, specifying drive names and numbers, displaying status, tensioning, rewinding, and cleaning
How to use tape utilities-- cpio , dd , ufsdump , ufsrestore , tar commands
How to add a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive (for physical installation information, refer to the documentation that accompanies your hardware)
How to add a diskette drive
Volume Management features
How to write content to CDs and DVDs--the cdrw command
How to set up an option card--SCSI and IDE interfaces, communication and network boards, bus extensions, etc.
SCSI addressing--controller information, address selection schemes, and physical and logical device names
How to use USB devices with Solaris
Adding a device driver
The Solaris 9 Sun Hardware Platform Guide is found in the Solaris 9 on Sun Hardware Collection.
This book describes which platforms are supported by which Solaris revisions, as well as other platform information.
The Solaris Handbook for Sun Frame Buffers is found in the Solaris 9 on Sun Hardware Collection.
This book describes different graphics cards supported on
Sun
hardware, as well as information on setting up and configuring frame buffer option cards.
Information about the following topics is provided in the Solaris 9 Reference Manual Collection.
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