About this book

You will find the information you need more quickly if you are familiar with:

• ``How this book is organized''

• ``Related documentation''

• ``Typographical conventions''

How this book is organized

After introducing the UnixWare 7 product line, this book describes how to:

• prepare your system for installation, including:

  • ensuring that your system meets minimum hardware requirements

  • ensuring that your system hardware is supported

  • filling out installation checklists to ensure that the installation runs smoothly

• install UnixWare 7
  

• perform setup tasks after installation, including:

  • using the help system

  • licensing and registering additional products

  • creating a set of emergency recovery diskettes

  • configuring additional disk and tape drives

  • configuring your video card and display

• how to configure necessary installation hardware not auto-detected by the system

Related documentation

UnixWare 7 systems include comprehensive online documentation. The SCO online documentation is organized into ``topics'' (or subject areas), rather than books. By using topics as entry points into the documentation set, you can access the desired subject directly; you no longer have to determine in which book the material is covered.

Most UnixWare 7 programs and utilities are linked to extensive context-sensitive help, which in turn is linked to relevant sections in the online topics.

The UnixWare 7 system also includes the following books in printed form:

Runtime Release Notes

contain important late-breaking information about installation, hardware requirements, and known limitations

UnixWare 7 System Handbook

covers many commonly used system administration tasks, such as managing users, starting and stopping the system, working with filesystems, and configuring printers

Many other useful publications about SCO systems by independent authors are available from technical bookstores.

Typographical conventions

This publication presents commands, filenames, keystrokes, and other special elements as shown here:

Example . . . . . . . . Used for:

lp or lp(C)

commands, device drivers, programs, and utilities (names, icons, or windows); the letter in parentheses indicates the reference manual section in which the command, driver, program, or utility is documented

/new/client.list

files, directories, and desktops (names, icons, or windows)

root

system, network, or user names

filename

placeholders (replace with appropriate name or value)

<Esc>

keyboard keys

Exit program?

system output (prompts, messages)

Yes or Yes

user input

``Description''

field names or column headings (on screen or in database)

Cancel

button names

Edit

menu names

Copy

menu items

File Find Text

sequences of menus and menu items

open or open(S)

library routines, system calls, kernel functions, C keywords; the letter in parentheses indicates the reference manual section in which the file is documented

$HOME

environment or shell variables

SIGHUP

named constants or signals

``adm3a''

data values

employees

database names

orders

database tables

buf

C program structures

b_b.errno

structure members

How can we improve this book?

What did you find particularly helpful in this book? Are there mistakes in this book? Could it be organized more usefully? Did we leave out information you need or include unnecessary material? If so, please tell us.

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Thank you.