| Text: | The Software Installation Administrator's Guide explains how to use Inst, the command line interface to inst(1M), the Silicon Graphics installation utility. This guide explains the Silicon Graphics software release conventions and software product structure and provides clear instructions for planning, installing, and maintaining a software installation. Installation procedures cover miniroot and live installations on all models of personal workstations and servers. This guide is intended for UNIX system and site administrators who are responsible for maintaining software configurations on Silicon Graphics computers. It is also useful to personal workstation owners as a reference to performing miniroot installations, tailoring the installation utility, and troubleshooting the installation process. The guide assumes that users are experienced with screen interfaces that are designed for character-oriented terminals. In addition to Inst, the inst utility also features a graphical interface, Software Manager. Software Manager is documented separately in the Personal System Administration Guide. The online version of the Software Installation Administrator's Guide ships with the IRIX product. |
