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Follow these procedures only if you have not purchased any external disk drives.

  1. At the system prompt (:), type:

       :HELLO MANAGER.SYS;HIPRI Return
    
  2. To get into the SYSGEN utility, type the following:

       :sysgen confg9x8 Return
    

    A screen similar to the following should appear:

      SYSGEN version E.00.00: catalog version E.00.00 TUE, SEP 28, 1993,
    
      Copyright 1987 Hewlett-Packard Co. All Rights Reserved.
    
    
    
          **warning** no NMCONFIG file in this configuration.
    
          **warning** NMCONFIG.PUB.SYS is now the NMCONFIG file
    
    
    
    
    
          ** First level command **
    
    
    
          io                log (lo)       misc (mi)        spu (sp)
    
          sysfile (sy)
    
    
    
          basegroup (ba)    keep(ke)       permyes (pe)     show (sh)
    
          tape (ta)
    
    
    
          clear (cl)(c)     exit (ex)(e)   help (he)(h)     oclose (oc)
    
          redo
    
    
    
      sysgen>
    
  3. To see how your system is currently configured, type IO at the prompt.

    
    
       sysgen> io Return
    
    
    

    A screen similar to the following should appear:

    
    
      ** IO configuration commands **
    
    
    
    
    
       aclass (ac)      adev (ad)       apath (ap)      avol (av)
    
       dclass (dc)      ddev (dd)       dpath (dp)      dvol (dv)
    
       lclass (lc)      ldev (ld)       lpath (lp)      lvol (lv)
    
       maddress(ma)     mclass (mc)     mdev (md)       mpath (mp)
    
       mvol (mv)
    
    
    
       clear (cl)(c)    exit (ex)(e)    help (he)(h)    hold (ho)
    
       oclose (oc)      redo
    
    
    
  4. To get a device listing, type LD at the prompt.

    
    
         io> ld Return
    
    
    

    A listing similar to the following should appear:

    
    
     LDEV:     1  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: D
    
     PATH: 56/52.6.0                  MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     2  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: D
    
     PATH: 56/52.5.0                  MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     3  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: D
    
     PATH: 56/52.4.0                  MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     4  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: DISC
    
     PATH: 56/52.3.0                  MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE:  2
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     6  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HP2567B                 RSIZE:        66   DEVTYPE: LP
    
     PATH: 56/52.8.0                  MPETYPE:      32   MPESUBTYPE:  9
    
    CLASS: LP       LP1
    
    
    
     LDEV:     7  DEVNAME:         OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC1503B                RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: TAPE
    
     PATH: 56/52.0.0                  MPETYPE:      24   MPESUBTYPE:  7
    
    CLASS: TAPE     DDUMP   TAPE1
    
      .
    
      .
    
      .
    
    
    
  5. To delete LDEV 3 and LDEV 4 from the configuration, type the following at the IO> prompt:

         io> dd 3 Return
    
         io> dd 4 Return
    
  6. To check to see if these devices have been removed type the following at the IO> prompt:

         io> ld Return
    

    A screen similar to the following should appear:

    
    
     LDEV:     1  DEVNAME:          OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                 RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: DISC
    
     PATH: 56/52.6.0                   MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE:  2
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     2  DEVNAME:          OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC2474S                 RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: DISC
    
     PATH: 56/52.5.0                   MPETYPE:       4   MPESUBTYPE:  2
    
    
    
    CLASS: DISC     SPOOL
    
    
    
     LDEV:     6  DEVNAME:          OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HP2567B                  RSIZE:        66   DEVTYPE: LP
    
     PATH: 56/52.8.0                   MPETYPE:      32   MPESUBTYPE:  9
    
    CLASS: LP       LP1
    
    
    
     LDEV:     7  DEVNAME:          OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
    
       ID: HPC1503B                 RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: TAPE
    
     PATH: 56/52.0.0                   MPETYPE:      24   MPESUBTYPE:  7
    
    CLASS: TAPE     DDUMP  TAPE1
    
      .
    
      .
    
      .
    
  7. To keep your configuration changes type the following at the IO> prompt:

       :SYSGEN config Return
    
    
    
         io> hold Return 
    
             
    
         io> exit Return
    
    
    
       sysgen> keep config Return
    
    
    
       Purge old configuration (YES/NO)? YES Return
    
    
    
       Keep configuration anyway (YES/NO)? YES Return
    
    
    
  8. When you start (boot up) the system next time, you need only type the START NORECOVERY command at the ISL prompt.

  9. To return to the system prompt (:), when the sysgen> prompt reappears, type:

       sysgen> EXIT Return
    
       :
    
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