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AlphaNET Installation Guide, Revision 05

Chapter 3 - Installing the

AlphaNET Software

Installing the AlphaNET software is much the same no matter what physical method of interconnecting

your computers you choose to use. This chapter describes how to install that common body of software

prior to performing any hardware specific installation which is covered in the hardware installation

documentation accompanying your Ethernet interface board for Ethernet installations, or in Chapter 4 for

SerialNET installations.

• Loading the AlphaNET software onto your computer, and installing the Product Installation

Code (PIC).

• Creating the SYSNAM.DAT file.

• Modifying the system initialization command file.

• Testing the new system initialization command file.

• Determining your cpuID number.

OVERVIEW OF THE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

Before installing the AlphaNET software, check the following items:

• Make sure your operating system meets the minimum revision level requirements as listed in the

software release notes shipped with your AlphaNET software. Attempts to use AlphaNET with

operating system software releases other than those listed in the release notes will yield

unpredictable results.

• Make sure consistent versions of the AlphaNET software are installed on all computers on your

network. Mixing versions of AlphaNET software will not work.

LOADING THE ALPHANET SOFTWARE

AlphaNET, along with other Alpha Micro software products, is distributed on CD-ROM disc. The CD-

ROM disc has a large number of logical devices, with each logical device dedicated to a particular

software product. Each logical device has a label block that describes what software product it contains.

You’ll find a file on the CD-ROM disc called DISC.NDX located on ACD0: in account [1,2]. This file

contains a directory of where each software product is located on the CD-ROM disc. After you have

located AlphaNET, enter the following commands:

LOG OPR:

RETURN

COPY=ACDxx:*.*[] RETURN

xx specifies the logical device containing AlphaNET (e.g., ACD17:).

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