SunScreen EFS Release 3.0 Installation Guide

Software and Hardware Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the minimum hardware and operating system requirements for installing SunScreen EFS 3.0.

Table 1-1 SunScreen EFS 3.0 Installation Requirements

Requirement 

Description 

Operating system 

Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 operating environment for SPARC(TM) and Solaris x86 platforms.

Requires a Java-enabled Web browser compliant with JDK(TM) 1.1.3 or later.

Hardware 

All SPARCStation, UltraSPARC, and x86 platforms supported by the Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 operating environment. 

Disk space

Minimum of 1 Gbyte (>300Mbytes unused). 

Memory

Administration Station: Minimum of 32-Mbytes, 64-Mbytes strongly recommended.

Screen: Minimum of 32-Mbytes. 

Network interfaces 

For SPARC systems: 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces (le, qe, hme, be, qfe), or Token Ring, or ATM (155 and 622 Mbps in LAN emulation mode), or FDDI, or PCI-based Ethernet cards.

For x86 systems: 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces (dnet, elxl).

Stealth mode supports 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet only. 

See supported devices listed at: http://access1.sun.com/driver/hcl/hcl.html 

 

Media

CD-ROM drive and diskette drive.  

The Screen can support up to 15 network interfaces at one time.

A remote Administration Station can connect directly to a Screen only through an Ethernet local area network (LAN) or a Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). An Administration Station can connect to the Screen by an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Token Ring LAN, but only after it is connected directly to the network by way of an Ethernet or FDDI connection first.

SunScreen EFS 3.0 includes the SunScreen(TM) SKIP software.

The HotJava(TM) 1.1.5 browser is packaged on the SunScreen EFS 3.0 CD-ROM and is installed as part of the Default Install when using the installation wizard. If you do not want this version of HotJava installed, select Custom Install instead and deselect package SUNWdthj. The following Web browsers are supported:

If you do not have Internet access, we provide the Java plug-in, version 1.1.2, on the SunScreen EFS 3.0 CD-ROM. It is located in the directory javaplugins.To install it, see the SunScreen EFS 3.0 on-line help topic "Allow Local File Access".