Ace c3700 - Workstation Manuale utente
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Table of Contents
Additional Core Enhancements (ACE)
The Workstation Quality Pack ..... 3
New Features/Functionality ..... 4
Visualize-fxe
USB Devices
Consolidated NFS Patches
Automatic Configuration of Graphics Cards
IDE CD-ROM Drives
Distributed Single Logical Screen
Year 2000 Compliance ..... 6
System Administration Information ..... 6
Updates and Upgrades
Using Software Distributor
Installing Patches on a System with ACE Software
System Administration Tasks ..... 10
Cold Installing with ACE Software
Updating with ACE Software
Loading the Quality Pack
Verifying Installation of ACE Software
Removing ACE Software from Your Computer ..... 19
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What does “ACE” mean? An ACE bundle is, as it’s name
implies, a collection of enhancements to the HP-UX 10.20 Oper-
ating System. This ACE release (December 1999) extends HP-
UX to support new hardware and software features. In addition
to extending the capabilities of HP-UX 10.20, the ACE software
corrects any critical or serious defects discovered since the origi-
nal release of HP-UX 10.20. Other than correcting defects, ACE
software does not modify the behavior of the base operating sys-
tem. After you load ACE software on your computer, you will still
be running HP-UX 10.20.
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The Workstation Quality Pack
The Workstation Quality Pack is an important part of HPs
software support strategy. We thoroughly test the Quality Pack
and require it to meet the same software quality standards as a
new operating system before we will release it. HP will update
the Quality Pack two times per year, updating and adding new
patches based on feedback from HP-UX application partners,
support organizations, and end users. Our intent is to supply our
customers with a high quality HP-UX operating system, and to
improve that quality over time. HP Response Center engineers
recommend loading the Quality Pack as the first step in resolving
common HP-UX 10.20 software problems.
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New Features /Functionality
VISUALIZE-fxe
VISUALIZE-fxe is HP’s new entry-level, low cost, full-featured
3D graphics card which replaces the Visualize-fx2 and Visualize-
EG (8 plane, 2D) products. It is a full 24-bit true color graphics
device for both 2D and 3D applications and markets.
USB Devices
New four-port USB Hub (D6804A) and a three-button (no
scroll wheel) USB Mouse. The USB Mouse is part of the A4983
USB Kit. Although not it’s primary use model, the USB hub can
be used to extend the length of the mouse/keyboard cable.
Consolidated NFS Patches
HP has combined Networking product enablement patches
that deliver the ONC+/NFS Networking ACE products as well as
the ONCE+/NFS versions of older products contained in the
older ONC/NFS product set. In addition, the new patches deliver
enhancements to certain commands an executable scripts. These
scripts will automatically modify the existing NFS configuration
file (/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf) which will select the desired behavior
of the patched system.
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Automatic Configuration of Graphics Cards
New patches deliver enhancements that preserve the relation-
ship between /dev/crt devices special files and graphics devices.
This applies to systems in which a graphics device is added or
moved.
IDE CD-ROM Drives
Minor changes have been made to the HP-UX IDE driver to
accommodate slight differences in the implementation of the IDE
protocol in IDE CD-ROM drives from various manufacturers.
This driver delivered will also work with the old IDE/ATAPI CD-
ROM drives.
Distributed Single Logical Screen (SLS/d)
This functionality was originally released in 10.20 ACE (June
1999) and cooperates with HP OpenGL to enable the sharing of
2D and 3D OpenGL window across displays connected to multi-
ple technical workstations.
The significant changes are:
• Improved mouse performance when running display list
OpenGL applications.
• Ability to move the default visual to the image planes.
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Year 2000 Compliance
The Year 2000 patches in the Quality Pack are necessary to
make your computer Year 2000 compliant, but they are not suffi-
cient; they only update the core operating system to address
date-handling problems known at the time we released those
patches.
In order to make your systems fully Year 2000 compliant, you
may also need to upgrade application software from HP and
independent software vendors. For information about Year 2000
compliance and patches for HP layered software, please visit the
Hewlett-Packard website on this topic:
http://www.hp.com/go/year2000
System Administration Information
Installing ACE bundles extend the functionality of HP-UX
10.20 You must install HP-UX 10.20 along with ACE software in
order to use the functionality described in the New Fea-
tures/Functionality section of this booklet.
Updates and Upgrades
If you are running HP-UX 10.0, 10.01, or 10.10, you must
update your system to HP-UX 10.20 before you can load the
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Additional Core Enhancements or install a Quality Pack bundle.
If you need to update many workstations to HP-UX 10.20 and
plan to use a cold-install process, you may benefit from using the
HP-UX 10.20 Workstation Transition Toolkit. For more informa-
tion about the Toolkit, visit the following URL:
http://www.software.hp.com/OS_transition/
Using Software Distributor
This booklet describes how to load ACE software for HP-UX
10.20 on a PA-RISC workstation using the SAM interface to Soft-
ware Distributor (SD-UX) tools. Most of the information here
also applies when directly invoking SD commands swinstall,
swlist,swremove, etc. from the command line, while still using
the graphical user interface. If you need information about using
the SD tools via the terminal interface, consult the manual Man-
aging HP-UX Software with SD-UX.
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WARNING
You must load the Additional Core Enhancements as
an entire bundle. HP recommends that you also load
the Workstation Quality Pack for HP-UX 10.20 ACE
from the Support Plus media. If you load individual
patches from the Workstation ACE or the Networking
ACE, the on-line Installed Product Database will not
indicate that the ACE bundle is installed.
This booklet focuses on the case of loading the ACE software
from a CD-ROM. However, most of the instructions also apply to
DDS (tape) media or updating from a remote depot across a net-
work. The only difference is the specification of the Source Depot
Type.
Installing Patches on a System with ACE Software
When the ACE software is loaded on your computer, exercise
caution in applying patches from other sources. Before adding
any patch to HP-UX, you should compare it to the list of compo-
nent patches in the ACE bundle. (You can find this information
in the Release Notes document for the ACE software. Also consult
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the text files in the directory /tmp/PHTXT.)
If you cannot determine whether a specific patch is newer than
the ACE software, contact your local HP Country Response Cen-
ter or HP Sales and Service office for assistance.
Do not use the ACE software bundle as a source of individual
patches to HP-UX. You should continue to obtain HP-UX patches
from the HP Software Depot on the World Wide Web or the HP-
UX Recommended Patches/Extension Software CD-ROM. If you
need assistance to obtain a patch, contact your HP Country
Response Center.
WARNING
Do not “force” the loading of any patch that is superseded
by a patch in an ACE bundle or Quality Pack. Loading an
earlier version of one of these ACE patches may delete
new features from your system. This action could leave
your computer in a nonfunctional state.
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System Administrator Tasks
The following information is an abridged set of instructions to
perform common system administration tasks. Consult the
Installing and Updating HP-UX Workstation Additional Core
Enhancements for 10.20 manual for additional information and
more detailed instructions.
Cold Installing with ACE Software
You can cold install from the Install/Update/Recovery CD-
ROM that is packaged with this booklet. Hereafter, we will refer
to this as the ACE install media.
The version of the install utility on the ACE install media will
automatically load both the base operating system (HP-UX
10.20) and the Workstation ACE bundle that is present on the
media.
The following is an abbreviated description of the cold install
process. It focuses on the steps that are specific to cold installing
the ACE software. The majority of the steps in this process are
the same as in past releases of HP-UX 10.20.
1. Load the ACE install media in the CD-ROM drive for your
workstation and boot the system. Follow the usual procedure for
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