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## About This Guide

Welcome to the Origin2000™ rackmount system. The Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide is your complete guide to operating your Origin2000 rackmount system. Specifically, it tells you how to

- set up your Origin2000 rackmount system and turn it on

- install peripherals

- install and remove software

- diagnose hardware problems

- replace faulty parts

- correctly maintain your system

Refer to this guide to set up the system, install hardware options, or find a solution when you suspect there is a hardware problem. Basic information on installing software is also included. For more advanced information on installing software, refer to the IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing Guide.

The system and the procedures in this guide are designed so that you may maintain and repair part of the system without the help of a trained technician. However, do not feel that you must work with the hardware yourself. You can always contact your service provider to have an authorized service personnel work with the hardware.

## Finding the Information You Need

The Origin2000 ships with the following sources of information, as shown in Figure i.

- IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing Guide

- IRIX™ Release Notes (on the CD)

- IRIS InSight™ online documentation and help

  Figure 1. Sources of Information for the Origin2000 Rackmount System

The following sections contain information on options that can help you get your system up and running and help you become productive as soon as possible.

### Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide

Figure 2. System Owner's Guide

Refer to this manual (shown in Figure ii) to set up the system and install hardware options, or to find solutions when you suspect there is a hardware problem. In addition, it contains basic information on installing and removing optional software.

### IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing Guide

Figure 3. IRIX Admin: Software Guideaa

The IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing Guide is the complete reference guide on using the installation program, inst, to install software. For information on using the Software Manager to install software, refer to the online Personal System Administration Guide.

### IRIS InSight Online Documentation and Help

Figure 4. IRIS InSight Icon

The online documentation package is called `IRIS InSight`. The InSight icon is shown in Figure iv. To view the manuals, go to the Help toolchest and choose “Online Books.” You will see bookshelves for end-user, developer, and administration manuals that ship online with the system. Double-click on a book to open it.

For a description and listing of the manuals that are available to purchase in hard copy, double-click on the Documentation Catalog.

### Online Reference (Manual) Pages

Your system comes with a set of IRIX reference (manual) pages, formatted in the standard UNIX® “man page” style. These are found online on the internal system disk (or CD-ROM) and are displayed using the `man` command. For example, to display the reference page for the `Add_disk` command, enter the following command at a shell prompt:

    man Add_disk

Important system configuration files as well as commands are documented on reference pages. References in the documentation to these pages include the name of the command and the section number in which the command is found. For example, “Add_disk(1)” refers to the `Add_disk` command and indicates that it is found in section 1 of the IRIX reference.

For additional information about displaying reference pages using the `man` command, see `man(1)`.

In addition, the `apropos` command locates reference pages based on keywords. For example, to display a list of reference pages that describes disks, enter the following command at a shell prompt:

    apropos disk

For information about setting up and using `apropos`, see `apropos(1)` and `makewhatis(1M)`.

### Release Notes

You can view the release notes for a variety of Silicon Graphics® products and software subsystems using one of two utilities:

`relnotes` |  | Text-based viewer for online release notes.
`grelnotes` |  | Graphics viewer for online release notes.

To see a list of available release notes, type the following at a shell prompt:

    relnotes

For more information, see the `relnotes(1)` and `grelnotes(1)` reference pages.

### World Wide Web Accessible Documentation

Silicon Graphics makes its manuals available in a variety of formats via the World Wide Web (WWW). Using your Web browser, open the following URL:

http://www.sgi.com/

Look in the category “Customer Support” for the Technical Publications library listing. Click on the Technical Publications title to open the following URL:

http://www.sgi.com/Technology/TechPubs

## Conventions

The Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide uses these conventions:

- References to documents are in italics.

- References to other chapters and sections within this guide are in quotation marks.

- Names of IRIX reference (manual) pages or commands that you type at the shell prompt are in italics as are IRIX file names.

- Steps to perform tasks are in numbered sentences. When a numbered step needs more explanation, the explanation follows the step.

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