About your documentation CD
Your IBM BladeCenter unit comes with the IBM BladeCenter Type 8677
Documentation CD, which contains documentation for your system in Portable
Document Format (PDF) and includes the IBM Documentation Browser to help you
find information quickly.
In addition to the documentation CD, your BladeCenter unit comes with the Rack
Installation Instructions, which contain a rack-installation template and basic
instructions for installing your system into a rack.
System requirements
To run the documentation CD, use a system that has the following minimum
hardware and software:
v Microsoft
®
Windows NT
®
4.0 (with Service Pack 3 or later), Windows
®
98, or
Windows 2000.
v 100 MHz Intel Pentium
®
microprocessor.
v 32 MB RAM.
v Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is included
on the documentation CD, and you can install it when you run the IBM
Documentation Browser.
Starting the IBM Documentation Browser
Use one of the following procedures to start the Documentation Browser:
v If Autostart is enabled, insert the documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
The Documentation Browser will start automatically.
v If Autostart is disabled, insert the documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive;
then, click Start --> Run.IntheOpen field, type
e:\win32.bat
where e is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, and click OK.
Using the IBM Documentation Browser
Use the IBM Documentation Browser to browse the contents of the documentation
CD, select from a list of available topics, see brief descriptions of the selected
topics, and view selected topics using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Documentation
Browser automatically detects the regional settings in use on your system and
presents the information in the language for that region (if available). If a topic is not
available in the language for that region, the English version is displayed.
Click Help for detailed information about using the IBM Documentation Browser.
Complete the following steps to use the Documentation Browser:
1. Select your product from the Product drop-down list.
The Topics list appears. It lists all topics that pertain to the selected product.
Topics are in folders or under other topics. A plus sign (+) appears beside each
folder or topic that has additional topics under it. Click the plus sign to display
the additional topics.
2. Click a topic to select it.
When you select a topic, a description of the topic contents appears in the
Description field.
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