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Setting Up a RIS Area
This chapter describes how to use the ris utility to configure a RIS server.
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Establishing a new RIS area with the ris utility (Section 4.2)
• Installing software kits in an existing RIS area (Section 4.3)
• Including hardware product kits into an existing RIS area (Section 4.4)
• Using a RIS area mounted on NFS (Section 4.5)
• Modifying the /etc/exports file, if necessary, to export RIS areas
(Section 4.6)
4.1 Overview
The ris utility can be invoked in two ways:
• Interactively through a menu-driven interface
• From the command line by issuing commands to perform the various
tasks one at a time
This chapter describes how to use the ris utility’s menu-driven interface.
Chapter 6 describes how to use individual ris commands. See ris
(8) for
more information.
4.2 Installing Software into a New RIS Area
After you create a RIS area and install the first software kit there, you can
install more kits into that area or create other areas as you need them.
Section 4.3 describes how to install additional software into an existing
RIS environment.
Follow these steps to create a new risN .alpha environment and install
the operating system:
1. Log in as root or use the su command to gain superuser privileges.
2. Insert the Operating System Volume 1 CD-ROM into the drive, then
mount the CD-ROM.
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