Installation guide

2: Hardware Installation

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The order of the PCI boards in the Freeway is arbitrary. The order shown in Figure 2–5

for the Freeway 1200 and Figure 2–6 for the Freeway 1300 matches the standard conﬁg-

uration shown in the boot conﬁguration ﬁle, which is also the standard order of the

boards as installed by Simpact.

If your conﬁguration has more than one ICP board, the boards are always numbered

from right to left when looking at the back of the Freeway. The two slots closest to the

CPU board are reserved for an optional second Ethernet board or other optional PCI

interface board. ICP 0 is the next board. The two-port board has two separate 26-pin

high-density connectors; port 0 is the top connector and port 1 is the bottom connec-

tor. Both the four-port and the eight-port boards have the same 100-pin high-density

connector. The four-port board uses a “quadrapus” (one-to-four) cable to attach four

DB25 or DB37 connectors to the 100-pin connector. The eight-port board uses an

“octopus” (one-to-eight) cable to attach eight DB25 connectors to the 100-pin connec-

tor. Port numbers are identiﬁed on the terminating ends of the quadrapus or octopus

cable.

Step 9:

Plug the power cord into the power input socket on the Freeway’s back panel and into

an AC electrical outlet near your Freeway.

Step 10:

Perform the software installation procedures on your boot server as described in the

Freeway User Guide.

Step 11:

Conﬁgure the boot parameters. There are two ways to do this. You can use the boot

parameter initialization disk as described in Chapter 3 or you can attach a local console

to your Freeway as described in Chapter 4.