This page describes the process of booting
other ViewStations from a ViewStation which has a hard disk drive
installed.
The HDS ViewStation's hard disk drive is especially
convenient in some system environments, such as remote locations on a
PPP link, or isolated environments. The hard disk can be used for
booting the individual ViewStation where it is installed and also any
other ViewStations. It can serve as the HDSware file server for fonts,
local clients, etc.
Booting from an Internal Hard Disk
Drive
With the internal hard disk drive, the ViewStation boots
and loads its files from the disk. It accesses the disk as if it were a
network device, but uses the IP loop-back address (127.0.0.1) and the
directory path of /dev/flash as its HDSware location. Local clients,
fonts, etc. are read directly from the disk.
These settings are made at the factory, so all the user has to
do is turn on the View Station and all the software is immediately
available. ViewStations with a hard disk installed should use the
special configuration file /HDSware/hds-fx/config/config.fx.dsk.
Booting from another ViewStation's Hard Disk Drive
Other
ViewStations can use this HDSware location by specifying the HDSware
location as the disk-equipped ViewStation's IP address as the HDSware
host and /dev/flash as the HDSware directory.
This permits booting, client loading, font loading, etc. to
run from a ViewStation instead of a host computer.
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