SETUP(8S) — MAINTENANCE COMMANDS

NAME

setup − Sun UNIX installation program

SYNOPSIS

setup

DESCRIPTION

setup is the program supplied by Sun to install major Sun Unix releases such as 2.0 or 3.0. setup allows a system administrator to install major Sun Unix release on new hardware, upgrade between major releases, and add additional hardware to existing machines.

setup provide both a tty interface for cursor addressable terminals and a SunWindows system interface for use on bit mapped displays. The Setup Reference Manual contains a detailed description of the use of setup.

Initially, setup asks the following questions in a menu format before entering the tty or SunWindows interface. For all menus respond to the >> prompt with the corresponding number of the menu item you choose.

The first question asked is the mode of use of setup.

Are you running setup:
1) to install on a new system
2) re-entrantly
3) to upgrade an existing system
4) in demonstration mode
>>

The next question is to determine the type of interface to be used. Note that the cursor addressable interface can be used within a shelltool(1) under SunWindows.

Will you be running setup from:
1) a Sun bit mapped display device
2) a cursor addressable terminal
>>

If you have selected the tty interface for cursor addressable terminals, setup asks for the terminal type.

Select your terminal type:
1) Televideo 925
2) Wyse Model 50
3) Sun Workstation
4) Other
>>

If you select "Other", the name of the terminal must correspond to a name in the termcap(5) database.

Enter the terminal type (your terminal type must be in /etc/termcap):
>>

setup begins running the interface for the terminal-type you have selected.

FILES

/etc/hosts
/etc/nd.local
/etc/ethers
/etc/rc.local
/etc/rc.boot
/etc/setup.info
/usr/lib/sendmail.cf

BUGS

setup will not run on tty devices that do not support cursor addressing and are not registered in the termcap(5) data base.