About This Manual

New Hardware Delivery (NHD) provides installable kernel support for new hardware without requiring a new release of the operating system. NHD kits can be ordered on CD or downloaded from the World Wide Web. This manual describes the contents of an NHD kit and how to acquire the current NHD distribution. It also tells you how to create a CD image of the NHD distribution from a downloaded NHD kit and how to install NHD onto your system.

Audience

This manual is for people who install NHD kits, typically experienced UNIX system administrators.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 Explains New Hardware Delivery concepts and describes the hardware supported in the NHD-5 kit.
Chapter 2 Provides notes and restrictions pertaining to the NHD-5 kit and its supported hardware.
Chapter 3 Tells you where to get the NHD-5 kit and how to install it on your system.

Related Documentation

You may find the following HP Tru64 UNIX documents helpful when you install NHD-5:

The Tru64 UNIX documentation is available on the World Wide Web at the following URL:


http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/

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The following conventions are used in this manual:

%
$

A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and POSIX shells.

#

A number sign represents the superuser prompt.

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file

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In syntax definitions, a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times.

cat(1)

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[Return]

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