Honeywell X-Superteam XPS-100 User guide

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Operating Instructions for the system.
ORDER NUMBER,
A'l8138959-001
SYSTBM
OPBRATIONS
GUIDE
May 1986

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PRBPACE
The purpose of this guide is to give a simple but exhaustive
presentation of the system
and to familiarize the reader with the
necessary operations for its use.
More detailed information on the terminals and printers is given in
their relative operating guides.

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CONTENTS
Initialization
Initialization
from disk
Initialization from diskette
Login
Shutting the System down
Performing Shutdown from disk
Perfonning Shutdown fonn diskette
Formatting
Fonnatting a diskette
Formatting a disk
READ VTOC
WRITE VTOC
Save from disk to diskette
Restoring a disk
from diskette
Procedure
tor personalization of
the ports
Organization of disks and diskettes
and the meaning of the names
Port number/line device, name
correspondance
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INITIALIZATION
Description
To initialize the system means to transfer the operating system
from the system disk to the main memory. This allows the user to use
both his
own applications and the functions offered by the system.
Initialization
From Disk
Check that there are
no diskettes in the diskette unit.
Two different situations may occur:
System Powered oft
Power the console
workstation
on
Power the system on
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System Powered on
Power the console on
Press POWER ON on the
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The system will display some messages. Reply only to those
messages which are listed below, ignoring the others.
Messages Replies
1. Is the date ..._ correct? (y or n)
2. Enter the correct date
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Enter y if "the date is correct
or n
if you wish to change the
date.
Press RETURN and go to step
3 if the reply is y, otherwise
continue with the next step.
Enter the
date in the form
MMDDhhmm:
MM is the month
DD is the day
hh is the hour
mm is the minute
Press RETURN.

3. Do you want to check the fne system! (y or n)
Enter y
(~: Press RETURN
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4. cODlole login:.
Refer to the appropriate
paragraph below.
lnitiallzaUcn From Diskette
1. Mount the initializing diskette DKT 'BOOTlt that has been supplied
with the system and initialize the system by pressiI'€ the
LOAD
button on the operator panel.
2.
Do not enter any more commands untU the n#n message appears.
At the
end of this operation the initialization is executed.
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LOGIN
Description
Using this function the user identifies himself to the system in
order to access it.
Messages
Replies
logim Reply with your identifier which has been defined by the
system administrator.
password:
Press RETURN
Reply with
the password defined by
the system administrator.
Press RETURN.
NOTE: 'The system is supplied with a user identifier, "root".
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SHU'M'ING THE SYSTEM DOWN
Description
To shut the system down means to end all current activities. It
is the only way to inlonn the system that the work has finished. Once
this phase is completed, the user can only reinitialize the system.
Performing Shutdown From Disk
. The "shutdown" command shuts down the system correctly. To use
this command, the console workstation must be in the root directory
and
the system must be in "multi-user" mode. Once you have verified these
conditions, enter the following commaoos:
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, shutdown 0
positions the workstation in the
root directory
starts the shutdown procedure
If the shutdown command is entered when the console workstation
was not positioned in the root directory, the following message appears:
shUtdowDl you must be in the root directory
(J) to use. shutdown .
Messages
1. SHUTDOWN PROGRAM do
.you want to send your
own message T(y or n)
2. Type your message
followed by
<ctrD d_
Replles
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Indicates the beginni~ of the
shutdown procedure.By replying
y, a message is sent to all
active tenninals. What happens
if you reply n, is explained in
the note below.
The system asks
you to
enter the message and at
the end press ctrl and d
sim ultaneously.

3. SYSTEM BEING BROUGHT DOWN NOWm
Busy out (push down)
the appropriate phone
lines
tor this system.
You. want to continue!
(y or n)
Process accounting stopped.
Error logging stopped.
The shutdown procedure
continues with
the
following messages.
By replying n, the·
procedure is interrupted.
By replying y, the procedure
issues the following messages:
All currently rlllming processes will now be killed
•••• SYSCON CHANGED TO /dev/coDSole ••••
Wait tor initl SINGLE USER MODE before halting
At this point, the procedure is complete. Before powering
the
system oft, it is recommended to wait for the initialization in
"single-user" mode message
to appear.
I sync ;aync ; sync
(~~ NOT& By replying "n" in step 1, the user declines to send a message
to the other terminal Users. The system, however, sends the
following messages to each of the tenninals.
Broadcast Message from root (console) Date •• _
o PLEASE LOG OFF NOW II
. Syitem Maintenance about to begin,
All processes will
be killed in 60 seconds
All users
are therefore informed of the imminent shutdown of
the system.
Performing Shutdown From Diskette
To correctly shut down the system which was initialized fr9m a
diskette, enter the following commands:
I syncJsyncJsync Press RETURN
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FORMATrING
Formatting is the preliminary phase of the preparation of a
magnetic media (disk
or diskette). It consists of structuring the area in
which the data will be stored. The VTOC is a field of 128 bytes in
which
the characteristics of the media (disk or diskette) are indicated.
The formatting operation erases any data present on the media
therefore;
it must executed only be on new media or on disks. and
diskettes containing data that is no longer valid•
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1. Inltlalize the system using the disk.
2. Reply "root" to the login prompt:
login" root press RETURN.
3. Enter the following commandz
I dlsklnlt press
RETURN
The main mellLl is now displayedz
a- FORMAT
b- READ VTOC
c- WRITE VTOC
q- QUIT
OptlOD Selected ->
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