The CD is designed to be a reflection of the web site and as a result mimics it closely in look and behavior. This allows for easy transistion between the two media types for those doing support in varied environments where they do no always have access to the internet. (The web site is reserved for Sun personnel and our authorized service providers only).

The CD allows you to browse and search for information about Sun products. Browsing is currently organized by component type, searching is by keywords and boolean expressions.

Both Solaris and Windows environments are supported with minimal differences between platforms to the user experience.

System Requirements

To get the most from your useage of the CD and prevent compatibility problems we recommend that your system have the following minimum configuration:

Startup

For Solaris systems

1. Mount the Sun FE Handbook CD into the CDROM drive.

2. Double click on the fehbk.sh icon in the file manager window that appears.

3. A terminal window pops up and displays some messages, next Netscape
   Navigator appears.

4. Read the License Agreement and click on the "Agree" or "Reject" buttons.

5. If you click on the "Agree" button you will find yourself at the home page.

For Windows/NT Systems

1. Mount the CD in the CDROM drive.

2. Read the License Agreement and click on the "Agree" or "Reject" buttons.

3. If you click on the "Agree" button you will find yourself at the home page.

4. You will see a FE Handbook CD shortcut created on your desktop for
   future use.

1. If the CD does not autostart it may be disabled or not working.

2. Click on Start->Run.

3. Enter SETUP.EXE in the run text box.

4. Click on OK.

5. The CD should load and start normally.

Navigating

After you click on the "Accept" button at the bottom of the License Agreement screen you will be at the FE Handbook home page. From here you can search or browse the data via the pull down menu at the top of the screen, see figure 1 below for a picture of the pull down button.

Figure 1

The pull down will give a choice to go to the FE Handbook home page, Search page, Volume I, Volume II -Parts Breakdown, Volume II-Troubleshooting, Volume II-Power, New Products, Code Names, Sun Systems, Comments, Help and Operational Issues.

Searching

To search for something select the search page from the pull down menu. On the search page you may enter key word terms into the text boxes, select the proper boolean expression to join the keywords from the menu buttons (Solaris only). On the Windows version you must enter the keywords and boolean expressions in the single text box.

Browsing

Data is organized into two main sections, Current Products and Archived Products. Links to these sections are available from the home page or the pull down menu shown above as figure 1. Information is organized by component type.

The Current Products section contains products being currently sold by Sun Microsystems. This section includes Volume I which contains all of the board components of systems, including CPU, memory, disk etc.

Section II contains the parts breakdowns, troubleshooting and power supply sections. The Archived Products section contains products that are no longer being sold but still supported (EOL) and some products which have reached End Of Service Life (EOSL). Sun generally supports products for five years after EOL.