Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing User Manual

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440 Chapter 14: Software installation, upgrade, and update procedures

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998

Procedure 6: Load the operating system tape on an IPE Module or an
Application Module with an MVME167 card (continued)

Note: If your drive does not appear in Figure 184, but another drive of
the same size is listed, use the option number for the listed drive.
Alternatively, choose option 6 for M2614S, or option 16 for ST3283N.
Although options 8, 9, and 16 start with the prefix Тm147,У these
options are also applicable to IPE Modules and Application Modules
with MVME167 cards. If you experience difficulties, contact your Nortel
support personnel.

Disk types used

Select this number

CDC ST1126N 9204 (104 Mbyte)

CDC ST1201N (172 Mbyte)

Fujitsu M2614S (180 Mbyte)

Seagate ST3283N (240 Mbyte)

For this example, the m147sea3283 disk drive is being used. Type
16 and press [Return].
The system response is: ÒSelected the XXXX disk type,Ó where
XXXX represents the disk type selected.

Figure 189
Format disk drive prompt

Selected the Ôm147sea3283Õ disk type.

If the root file systemÕs disk is new or needs to be formatted,
it can be formatted now. In order for you to take advantage of
dynamic disk slicing capabilities and the use of the
sledit(1M) utility you may have to reformat the disk if it
was formatted with the R3V3 or earlier version of
the BOS disk formatter, dinit(1M).

WARNING - FORMATTING THE DISK WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON THE DISK.

---> Format the root file systemÕs disk drive (y, n, ?, q) [n]:

You are prompted to format the root file systemÕs disk drive. Type y
and press [Return] to indicate that you wish to format the drive.