Nortel Networks 2500 Series - Manual (Page 30)

30 User interface fundamentals
Prerequisites for Device Manager installation
The minimum requirements for Device Manager installation in a Windows
environment are as follows:
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Ensure that all previous versions of the software are uninstalled and
that the new application version is installed in a new directory. Nortel
recommends that you use Uninstall DM to remove existing Device
Manager software versions.
•
Close all programs.
•
Use one of these operating systems—Windows NT, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, or Windows
Vista.
• Ensure that your CPU is Pentium II 350 MHz or greater.
• Ensure that your PC memory has 256 MB DRAM or better.
• Ensure that your PC hard drive has 300 MB of available space.
The minimum requirements for Device Manager installation in a UNIX
environment are as follows:
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Use one of these operating systems—Sun Solaris 2.8x or higher or
Linux Kernel 2.2 or higher.
• Ensure that your computer memory has 128 MB DRAM or better.
•
Ensure that your hard drive temporary directory has 4 MB.
• Ensure that your hard drive installation directory has 300 MB.
Attention: If you use SPARC versions 5.8, 5.9, or 5.10, you must install
Sun Solaris operating system patches before installing Device Manager.
Following is a patch procedure for SPARC versions 5.8, 5.9, and 5.10.
Installing a Sun Solaris patch
Procedure Steps
Step Action
1 On the Solaris workstation, enter the uname -1 command to
determine the installed Solaris version.
2 Open a Web browser window and type sunsolve.sun.com to
access the Sun Microsystems technical support Web site.
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series
Fundamentals
NN47215-102 01.01 Standard
27 October 2008
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