If it is really is completely gone you'll have to start by partitioning the disk. Use an MS-DOS boot floppy and boot the system by placing the floppy in the floppy drive and turning on the computer. Then run FDISK which allows you to select the partitions on the disk. Remember that if you want to allow a Linux installation you'll have to arrange for the appropriate partitions be created either then or at a later date. A good guide is to start with a DOS partition of about 500 MB. Make it a primary partition. This will allow you to run most of the Windows 95 procedures that we need for CIRSI.
You'll want to bring in the necessary software from one of our software CD ROMs. In order to use this you must install the CD-ROM reader by connecting it to the mains power supply as well as connecting the unit to the SCSI port of the computer you are working on. The computer will not recognized a SCSI peripheral unless you introduce it to the system properly. In order to do this you must install basic SCSI recognition software on the PC.
All our computers contain an Adaptec 2940 SCSI ultra PCI card as the disk controller. All the system disks are SCSI disks. Note that we are not yet able to use the 16 GB IDE drives under Windows 95.
To do that you must insert a disk which contains the EZ-SCSI software. You then type "DOSINST" and the system will install the necessary SCSI drivers into the partition you have created so that when you next boot the system it will recognize the SCSI drive and allow you to use it.
Having installed EZ-SCSI and re-booted the system to drive C: you will have told the system when you installed the EZ-SCSI software that the CD-ROM is another drive letter, probably D:. The next step is to copy the Win 95B directory form the CD-ROM onto the hard drive that you wish to install Windows 95 on. Do this by firstly creating a directory in C: called Win95B (type mkdir win95B at the C:> prompt). Then type "copy D:\Win95B\*.* C:\Win95B. This will copy the entire content of the Win95B directory from the software CD-ROM into your C: drive.
Next go into C:\Win95B and type "set-up". This will
then install the full Windows 95 system on your disk. You will
need the correct code number for the system which is 20195-OEM-0002516-95789.
Windows 95 will now install most of the system that you require. In order to install networking start the control panel/network and enter the various facilities that you need. You need to choose a variety of different functions by pressing the "Add" button on the network configuration tab. Start by choosing a client (choose a client for Microsoft Network's) then the service [select file and printer sharing for Microsoft Network's) then select protocol. Choose Microsoft and TCP/IP. The next step is to set-up the TCP/IP properties by selecting TCP/IP on the configuration can and then clicking on quote properties quote. Areas things should be chosen as follows
a) IP Address tab:
Specify and IP address code: the IP address should be the one assigned to the machine you are installing e.g 161.72.6.47 (cdm's laptop at LPO)
The full list of LPO IP numbers allocated to CIRSDI is as follows:
161.72.6.41 circc.roque.ing.iac.es * camera controller PC
161.72.6.43 cirdr.roque.ing.iac.es * data reduction PC
161.72.6.44 cirob.roque.ing.iac.es * observer's PC
161.72.6.46 cirrm.roque.ing.iac.es * RGM laptop
161.72.6.47 circm.roque.ing.iac.es * CDM laptop
The subnet mask should be 255.255.0.0
b) Gateway tab:
Specify a new gateway (161.72.6.1 for LPO), click "Add"
c) DNS Configuration:
Specify Host (name of your computer, e.g. circm
Specify Domain (roque.ing.iac.es)
Add DNS Server Search Order in the correct order to be searched. at LPO suggest:
161.72.6.232, 131.111.68.35, 131.111.8.42
No other TCP/IP Properties tabs need anything entered or changed.
You next need to add a network adapter. The manufacturer of the network adapters in the three rack mounting industrial cases we have is Intel and the board is an Intel EtherExpress 82557 10/100 part. You'll not find the driver for this card on the Windows CD-ROM and must use a floppy disk that has the drivers on it as part of the installation. At the appropriate time the installation procedure will ask you for this information and you should specify the floppy. Simply follow the instructions.
The system will want to reboot in order to install everything and enable the networking.
(One difficult you'll possibly find is that the PCI network card requires drivers which are claimed to be present on the software CD-ROM. These can appear to be found under sub-directory hardware/Intel 82557. In practice there appears to be problems with the software release on the CD-ROM. There's a separate floppy disk which has the drivers on its in this is what you should use. A copy of this floppy should be traveling with the system.)
You also need to install the control system for the display card. Again there appear to be some problems with the software on the CD-ROM but you should go into the hardware section and select the subdirectory for Matrox/Win95. Within that directory you'll find a program called "set-up". I have found that once you have run this program and restarted the computer it does not seem to recognize the display properly. What seems to fix its is ignore the problem and just repeat the process. On the second time it seems to find all the files it needs and is happy.
You can install any of the software that you wish to use such as PC Anywhere in the usual way. Note that we use PC Anywhere version 7.5 and not the more recent version PC Anywhere 8.0 which appears to have some rather subtle bugs and does not work very well with our hardware. It is not yet clear why this is but it may be related to the fact that some of the computers we use still have an old version of BIOS ROMs.
The configuration of PC Anywhere is relatively straightforward. Simply full your nose. The camera control PC is the host machine and the computer in the control room is the one that on operates as a remote control PC. There on which every machine the you'll working creates an item which does what you want. Do not ask it to start automatically at the end of the session that creates it. It is most convenient to move this Icon onto the desktop so you can access it easily. Right click on this icon and select "Properties". If you are installing PC Anywhere on the camera control computer it is essential that PC Anywhere starts first of all so that you can access the computer remotely and enter the password, etc., for that machined without having to go up to the telescope and do it manually. To do this you need to select the "Settings" tab and enable "launch host at startup". There is no need to do this on the Remote Operating Machine (i.e. the machine in the control room).
If you want to install a copy of Pixcel it is important that what you do is start by copying form of the original distribution disks (version 2.6)that came from AstroCam. Only if this installation happens properly are all the various registry entries made. You can then copy the correct version of Pixcel (the versions that are currently in use mostly date from September 1998). Remember that if you do use the Pixcel software you will have to make the correct entry in the registry according to the documentation of Martin has provided. This principally involves changing one of the parameters so that it automatically selects CIRSI or cozy depending on what system you want to ROM.
A detailed summary follows:
a) First instal Pixcel version 2.60 from LSR install disks.
This is necessary to build the directory structure and make the registry entries. A copy of these install disks should be available on the system but it is not currently present on the software CD-ROM.
b) Copy the modified files pixcel.exe, gci.dll and gci2.dll into the pixcel program directory.
c) Both CIRSI and COHSI ( and a single chip version ) have identical executables. The selection of which setup is done by a registry entry at run time.
The entry is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Life Science Resources Ltd\OEM
Values of 0-3 are used by LSR, 4=CIRSI, 5=COHSI, 6=UFTI
Prepared by cdm@ast.cam.ac.uk Please contact with comments, etc. Last updated 30 Oct 1998