Adding/setting up mem, disk, cd drive, sys admin?

[henderson at esvax.hamavnet.com]

In article <44675 at netnews.upenn.edu>, lau at desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) writes:
> We recently got some new hardware for our DECstation 5000/200.  Most of
> the installation seems straight forward but I have a few of questions.
> 
> I added two 8 meg memory boards.  The memory shows up on the hardware
> test.  What do I need to do to make the operating system aware of the
> new memory?  I couldn't find any doc on this, maybe I'm not looking in
> the right place.

You need to rebuild the kernel. Bring the machine to single user mode and do:

# /etc/doconfig -c HOSTNAME
                   ^^^^^^^^--- must be all caps, even if your machine name
                               has lowercase chars on it

Then make sure you move the newly generated vmunix file back to root
# mv /sys/MIPS/HOSTNAME/vmunix /

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.(stuff deleted as I don't have answers for some of the questions...)
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> 
> Another thing, do you have to run lmf on each machine to install the licenses
> for each product.  We only have a half dozen machines with one acting as the
> server(dms) for the others.  Still, it was a bit tedious typing in all the
> information for each machine to register a product.  There's probably a way
> to type it just once and reuse, no?

No.

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Javier Henderson
Engineering Services
Avnet Computer
Los Angeles, CA

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