Installing OSR 5 is very straight forward and should not cause any major problems. These notes are aimed at BDS Technical Staff and not the end user. If you are an end-user and are attempting the install then this should make sense - if not don't try it.

These notes should be used in association with the OSR 5 release notes supplied with the system.

READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START

**** Check This ****

Additional, more detailed installation information is contained in these html files which are readable from the CD-ROM media prior to installation:

info/opensrvr/english, the text version is in info/opensrvr/relnotes.txt.

Note: If there are ANY errors during the load START AGAIN, try switching OFF Internal and External cache in the BIOS during the load. If you cut corners here you may well get stuck later on.

With release 5.0.5 you can, if your system supports it, install directly from the CD rom which is by far the better option. You will need to alter the BIOS so the bootable CD is active.

Make sure you have:

OSR 5 Boot disk (if not using the bootable CD option)

CD Rom

Serial numbers

User Licences (if needed)

SCSI Tapes should be set with an ID of 2

SCSI CD's should be set with an ID of 5

Inset the CD/Floppy and reset the machine - You should see:

Boot: 

Check hardware listing and if Ok press return to continue

SCSI CD Rom

Installation from a SCSI CD-ROM is easiest.

Install from SCSI CD
Media Device to be used	SCSI CD Rom
Adapter Type	alad, Adaptec 294x 394x
SCSI Host adapter	0
SCSI ID	5
SCSI LUN	0
SCSI BUS	0

If you have a different SCSI host adapter, use the appropriate driver name from the following table instead of alad:

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    Host adapter                                           Driver name
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    Adaptec 152x                                           spad
    Adaptec 154x, 154x emulation, 164x                     ad
    Adaptec 174x                                           eiad
    Adaptec 274x (7770 chip)                               arad
    Adaptec 2940x (7870 chip)                              alad
    Future Domain 1650, 1670, 1680, 600, 700 (1800 chip)   fdha
    Future Domain 7000                                     wdha
    Future Domain 7000ex                                   wdex
    Future Domain 845, 850, 860, 885 (950 chip)            tmcha
    Olivetti ESC-1, ESC-2, and EFP                         efp
    Storage Plus SCSI-AT (SUMO)                            sumo

IDE CD Rom

Determining your system configuration for ATAPI (EIDE) CD-ROM

If you are uncertain of the hardware configuration of your system, but you know that the primary hard disk is attached to an IDE controller, the following information will allow you to determine the most likely configuration.

Entries for the ATAPI CD-ROM will appear in system hardware report that is onscreen after booting. Look for lines of the following form, and especially a line with the string: type=wd:

%adapter 0x01f0-0x01f7 14 - type=wd ha=0 id=7 bus=0 fts=d

Here, ha=0 indicates that the ATAPI CD-ROM drive is attached to the Primary IDE controller.

%adapter 0x0170-0x0177 15 - type=wd ha=1 id=7 bus=0 fts=d

Here, ha=1 indicates that the ATAPI CD-ROM drive is attached to the Secondary IDE controller.

If there is another device attached to the IDE controler, the effective SCSI ID of the CD-ROM drive is 0 if it is configured as a Master device or 1 if it is configured as a Slave device. If the other device is the primary hard disk drive, the CD-ROM drive will normally be configured as a Slave device. If your system has a primary SCSI hard disk, the CD-ROM drive may be configured as a Master device.

If there is no other device attached to the IDE controller, the CD-ROM drive should have been configured as a Master device with an effective SCSI ID of 0.

NOTE: The base I/O addresses and interrupt vectors shown on your system might differ from the examples shown above.

Keyboard Selection	UK English
Licence Details	See COLA
Install Type	Fresh

• Select UK English as the keyboard type

• Enter the License Number, License Code, and the License Data that is on the Licence Certificate.

• You should have already determined whether this installation is an Upgrade or and Fresh Installation. This Document assumes you are doing a Fresh Installation however, there is not much difference between the two.

  It is strongly recommended you do a FRESH install.

Note: The computer Name, IP address and domain will be on the configuration form. DO NOT just pick something off the top of your head.

• You will need to give your computer a unique name.
• Type in the domain that this computer will reside in, if they already have an ISP then use the domain issued by them otherwise use 'uucp'.

• Adjust the timezone to your area - GMT

• The security profile determines how the system integrity is handled. There are four levels.
  1. Low - No security features
  2. Traditional
  3. Improved
  4. High - Maximum security available.

  In general pick 'Traditional'.

• Select language - UK English

• Use Entire Disk for UNIX
• Custom
• Interactive fdisk/divvy

Swap	Minimum 64Mb, not less than 2 x installed RAM
Root	Minimum 700Mb, no more than 1.2Gb
u	Split the rest of the disk into as many areas as required. Generally make no one filesystem larger than 2Gb and not smaller then 500Mb.
v
w