Nortel Networks NN10265-111 - Manual (Page 86)

NN10265-111 MCS 5100 3.5 Standard 4.0 January 2006
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to allow I/O blades to boot and mount their file systems over the
network.
The complete base system can be installed in approximately 30
minutes.
IMPORTANT: The installation procedures must be followed separately
for each side if two Portals are installed in the same chassis.
The following is required for an installation:
• Chassis and peripherals
— One Motorola CPX8216T high availability compact PCI which is
divided into two domains (A and B), each running independent
media portals.
— One SCSI hard drive per domain, minimum 40Gb.
— One SCSI CD-ROM per domain.
— One 3.5” floppy drive per domain.
— One Motorola CPX8216T HSC/BR hot swap controller per
domain.
• Host Blade
— One Motorola CPV5370 per domain.
— One Motorola 5370 transition module per domain.
• I/O Blades
— Up to six MCPN765 per domain.
— One PIMC-0101 transition module for each MCPN 765.
• Other hardware
— VT100-compatible terminal device for console access to the host
and I/O blades.
• Base software
— Red Hat 6.2 installation CD (disc 1)
— RTP Media Portal installation CD
• Required information
— IP address information: one address per host blade and one or
two media addresses per I/O blade.
— IP address(es) of timeservers.
— MAC (ethernet) addresses of all I/O blades (two addresses per
blade). Addresses can be found on labels affixed to the blade or