2 Sun Blade 2500 Getting Started Guide • December 2004
FIGURE 1-1 Process for Installing the Sun Blade 2500 Workstation
Note – Solaris 8 2/04 and Solaris 9 9/04 and several additional software
applications are preinstalled on your hard drive. See
“Setting Up the Preinstalled
Solaris Operating System Software” on page 11.
Unpack the workstation and familiarize yourself
with the workstation features.
Connect the workstation and external device
cables.
Power on the workstation.
Answer the Solaris software prompts.
READY TO WORK!
START
Install different
version from
other media.
No
Yes
See “Unpacking the Workstation”.
See “Cabling the Workstation”.
See “Powering On the Workstation”.
For instructions, refer to the documentation in the
Solaris Media Kit for your operating system.
See “Setting Up Your Operating System”.
See “Getting Started With the Additional Preinstalled
Software”.
Use a
preinstalled
version of
software?
Install optional
components?
Install
optional
components.
Yes
No
To install DIMMs, graphic accelerators,
PCI cards, hard drives, diskette drives, tape drives, or
optical media drives, see the Sun Blade 2500 Service,
Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual (817-5117)
or the documents that ship with the components.
See also “Front Panel Overview” and
“Back Panel Overview”.