Specifications

Field Service Handbook for SGI
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fx is a formatting and exercise utiIity used for basic maintenance an disk drives.
( Booting fx
A variety of ways exist to boot fx.
To boot k from the system disk:
From the Command Monitor prompt (>>). enter the following command for a
SCSI system disk drive
boot -f dkSc(0,l~)fx
For any type of disk drive, from the sash prompt, entera
To boot fx from the tape! drive:
If the tape drive is a SCSI device with drive ID 2, at the >> prompt, enter
boot -f fp#a(0#2#0)bc.fP17
If the tape drive is a VME QIC device, at the >> prompt, enter
boot -f ~C(O,O.O)tX-fP17
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To boot fk from CD-ROM:
1. To boot sash, from the >> pmps enter
boot -f dlua(Or6,8)#rrhZP17
2. Tobootfx,atthesash:pmmpt,entex
dk88(0#6#7)/.+md/fX.r917
To boot fx &om the nelmork:
Configure a boot server (with aaachcd CD-ROM or tape drive) to provide
bootabk files to a client system on the network; configure the client so that it can
boot fx over tile network
Notc: Before configuring the boot server, make sun there is enough disk space
in the /usr file system for the /dist/scr file.
. 0 In IRIX 4.05,/dist/sa is 21 MB.
0 In IRM 5.2, /diSt/sa is 28 MB.
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