Operating instructions
SEA M300USERSGUIDE
GETTINGSTARTED
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GETTINGSTARTED
The following section is provided for users who wish to get up an running quickly. SEA recommends
that you read the entire users guide in order to become familiar with all of the basic functionality of
the M300.
INSTALLINGQNX4SOFTWARE
It is nearly impossible to provide step-by-step instructions for setting up the M300/QNX system.
Depending on hard disk size and system configuration the installation steps vary. What might work
on some systems will not work on others. Here are some of the basic steps required to install QNX
onto a system. If you get stuck on a setup step consult the M300 Users Guide or the QNX
Documentation (Helpviewer) for additional help. There are sections in the Helpviewer
documentation for installing and setting up QNX and Photon. It’s strongly recommended that you
read these sections before proceeding.
QNX 4 boot image has to be within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard drive. The BIOS can only
search for the first 1024 cylinders of the hard drive for the boot image. Larger hard drives will have
more than 1024 cylinders.
In the BIOS you can enable LBA prior to installing QNX 4 (if supported). This remaps the drive
settings in such way that you have more heads and sectors but the cylinders stay less than 1024. This
doesn’t affect the size of the hard drive.
To install QNX 4 with guaranteed results you must install QNX 4 into two partitions. One small
partition (less than 100 MB) used to boot. The other partition hold everything else.
It is recommend to use the QNX 4 Product Suite 2010 CD (or latter version).
In systems with more than one boot OS it might be necessary to move/resize the other partitions to
make room for QNX 4. This is usually done with a program such as Acronis Disk Directory Suite.
1. It may be necessary to partition the hard drive to have empty space to install QNX. We
recommend at least 60 GB free space.
2. Change BIOS to allow the system to boot from a CD-ROM. When done, change BIOS back to
booting from hard drive. This should help boot the system faster.
3. Insert QNX Product Suite CD. Allow system to boot from CD.
4. Open shell.
5. Fsys -f 2000 -i 4000 -Hdisk160 &
6. Use fdisk /dev/hd0.0 to create one boot partition (100 MB) type 77.
7. mount -P /dev/hd0
8. dinit -h /dev/hd0.0t77
9. Perform the standard install for QNX 4.25, Photon 1.14 and TCP/IP. You will need to enter a
valid license for each one of these in order to perform the install. Use node 1 (default). Create the