Remote I/O System User Guide

RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
Installing RIO under Solaris
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Chapter 2 Installing hardware and software
General setup procedure for Solaris
The general procedure for installing RIO for the Solaris operating system is as follows:
1. If required, install any PCI host cards you require into your system. See Installing a
Universal 3.3/5V PCI host card on page 156
2. Install the RIO Solaris drivers and utilities onto your system using the procedures
described in Installing device drivers and utilities on page 39.
3. If required, using the rioisacfg utility, select and assign addresses for any additional ISA
host cards you want to install from the free addresses available. See Assigning ISA host
card addresses and IRQ levels on page 41.
4. If required, install any ISA host cards you require into your system. See Installing an ISA
host card on page 158
5. If you want to remove any ISA host cards from your system,
a. at the command prompt, type:
/etc/rioisacfg [-d <name>] and press the Enter key
where <name> is the host card name (for example, ISA1) and d is the delete com-
mand.
b. Now physically remove any host cards you want from your system using the
procedures described in Removing host cards on page 160.
6. Install the links you require in your system using one of the procedures shown in the next
table;
7. Install the Remote Terminal Adaptors you require for your system. see Installing Remote
Terminal Adaptors (RTAs) on page 161.
8. If required, remove any Remote Terminal Adaptors you want from your system. See
Removing a Remote Terminal Adaptor (RTA) on page 173.
9. Set up any terminals attached to your system using Admintool. See Setting up terminals
using Admintool on page 44.
10.If required remove any terminals from your system using Admintool. See Removing RIO
serial port terminals on page 49.
Link type For procedure see...
Short distance Installing a short distance link on page 174
Medium distance Installing a Fibre Optic Link Kit (FOLK) on page 175
Long distance Installing a Long Distance Module (LDM) on page 177
Fault tolerant Installing a fault tolerant link on page 189
Dual host fail-safe Installing a dual host fail-safe link (UNIX only) on page 190