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Creating a Rescue Disk Set

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Setting Up and Using Your HP Visualize Linux Workstation Starting and Stopping Your HP Visualize Linux Workstation To initialize your software: 1. Turn on the display first, and then the HP VISUALIZE Linux Workstation. When you switch on the computer, it carries out the Power-On-Self-Test (POST). If you wish to view the POST details, press to get the HP Summary Screen. If there is an error in the POST, the error will automatically be displayed. For details, see the section "If a POST Error Message is Displayed" in the chapter "Troubleshooting Your HP Visualize Linux Workstation." If you have set a password in the Workstation's Setup program, the password prompt displays after the POST has completed. If the Password prompt is displayed, type your password and press to be able to use the Workstation. Creating a Rescue Disk Set During the initialization of your software, it is very important that you create a Rescue Disk Set for the operating system, when prompted. HP recommends that you use new diskettes for this purpose. To create these back-up diskettes, follow instructions that appear in the HP Linux Setup and Recovery Guide (HP Part Number A1297-90010) that is included with your Workstation. 12 Chapter 1

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12
Chapter 1
Setting Up and Using Your HP Visualize Linux Workstation
Starting and Stopping Your HP Visualize Linux Workstation
To initialize your software:
1.
Turn
on
the
display
first,
and
then
the
HP
V
ISUALIZE
Linux
Workstation.
When you switch on the computer, it carries out the Power-On-Self-Test
(POST). If you wish to view the POST details, press
to get the HP
Summary Screen. If there is an error in the POST, the error will
automatically be displayed. For details, see the section “If a POST Error
Message
is
Displayed”
in
the
chapter
“Troubleshooting
Your
HP
Visualize Linux Workstation.”
If you have set a password in the Workstation’s
Setup
program, the
password prompt displays after the POST has completed. If the
Password prompt is displayed, type your password and press
to be able to use the Workstation.
Creating a Rescue Disk Set
During the initialization of your software, it is very important that you
create a Rescue Disk Set for the operating system, when prompted. HP
recommends that you use new diskettes for this purpose.
To create these back-up diskettes, follow instructions that appear in the
HP Linux Setup and Recovery Guide
(HP Part Number A1297-90010
)
that is included with your Workstation.