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From: lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
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Subject: Adding/setting up mem, disk, cd drive, sys admin?
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We recently got some new hardware for our DECstation 5000/200.  Most of
the installation seems straight forward but I have a few of questions.

I added two 8 meg memory boards.  The memory shows up on the hardware
test.  What do I need to do to make the operating system aware of the
new memory?  I couldn't find any doc on this, maybe I'm not looking in
the right place.

I added 2 RZ57s in an expansion unit to the system.  I ran MAKEDEV and
newfs.  The results were about 950megs total with 850megs available.  Is
this normal?  I read somewhere that the system takes about 10% for
(mumble...mumble).  Is there a way to change this percentage, would one
want to do this?

We got an RRD42 CD drive that has the headphone jack and audio LR outs.
Does anyone have software that can play music CDs on this drive?  I
think it's much nicer than the bulky RRD40(?).

Oh, we also got Ultrix 4.2 recently.  I only recently upgraded the systems
to 4.1. and everything was working so well.

Another thing, do you have to run lmf on each machine to install the licenses
for each product.  We only have a half dozen machines with one acting as the
server(dms) for the others.  Still, it was a bit tedious typing in all the
information for each machine to register a product.  There's probably a way
to type it just once and reuse, no?

Sorry if some of these questions seems simple.  We've only recently gotten
the sys admin doc set and I haven't plowed through all of it yet.

Just thought of another thing.  Is there a way to set up yellow pages without
being a bind server?  Sounds like a wierd question.  What I want to do is
have a common /etc/passwd, /etc/group files for our DECstations and still use
our campus-wide name server.


Yan.
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