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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 CDROM 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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