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This chapter includes the following:
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Minimum
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Recommended |
Processor
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2 GHz or more Intel Pentium 4
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2 GHz or more Intel Pentium 4 |
RAM
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512 MB
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1 GB |
Disk space
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2.2 GB
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2.2 GB |
Monitor
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1024×768
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1280×1024 |
You can also install the QNX Neutrino RTOS as a virtual machine on
VMware Workstation 6.5, VMWare Player 2.5, and Microsoft VirtualPC 2007.
If you find problems with any virtualization environment, please post
your findings in one of the forums in our Foundry27 community website.
We recommend you use the following BIOS settings:
- Disable Plug and Play OS.
- Set any parallel ports and onboard serial ports to specific addresses,
if possible, instead of using an automatic setting.
- Enable SATA if your system includes a SATA drive.
- If you want to boot QNX Neutrino from the DVD or CD —
either to try it without
installing it, or for troubleshooting — make sure that the appropriate
drive is the
first boot device.
- If your BIOS is has an option for booting from
“Other USB devices,” enabling it could make the BIOS take a
very long time to start.
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- For QNX Neutrino self-hosted development, it's possible to have more
than one version of QNX SDP installed on your computer at
the same time, by having them in separate partitions.
If you want to retain an earlier released version of
QNX SDP or QNX Momentics,
install 6.4.1 in a new partition.
When you boot, you're asked to choose the partition by its number.
If you're then prompted to choose from multiple .diskroot files,
choose the one that corresponds to the partition that you already chose.
- You can install QNX SDP into a new partition without harming
the contents of other partitions.
- In text mode, we support only the US keyboard layout.
- If you install QNX Neutrino in a partition on a Windows machine and later
use Windows software to create another partition, you'll lose your
QNX Neutrino partition.
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To install QNX SDP 6.4.1, do the following:
- Insert the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.1 Installation DVD or
the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.1 Installation and Boot CD into the
appropriate drive.
- Boot from the disk and follow the instructions on your screen.
Depending on your system, the installer may ask you to do the following:
The installer will also ask if you wish to install a package of
GNU Public License programs, such as tar and sed.
We recommend that you do so for development machines.
- When prompted, remove the disk from the drive and then reboot.
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If your EIDE doesn't support DMA:
- If you're using the Power-Safe filesystem (fs-qnx6.so),
boot using qnxbase.ifs.
- If you're using the QNX 4 filesystem (fs-qnx4.so),
boot with .altboot by pressing Esc when prompted.
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If you have more than one partition on your disk, choose the one you
installed QNX Neutrino in.
Choose the appropriate boot loader.
If you don't choose a partition or boot loader, the system uses the
default ones.
- The first time you boot, a dialog asks you to
choose the video driver, resolution, color depth, and refresh rate
that are appropriate for your system.
You can also select Global Options so you can
choose whether to boot into text or graphical (Photon) mode.
- Log in as root (or click Superuser in graphical
mode).
This account initially has no password; for instructions for setting the
password and creating other accounts, see the
Managing User Accounts
chapter of the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
You'll find this manual in the online documentation, as well as on our
website.
- Set the time zone, time, date, and so on in the Localization windows.
- Activate your software (see
“Activating QNX SDP,”
below.
For more information about booting, see the
Controlling How Neutrino Starts
chapter of the
QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
The QNX Momentics Tool Suite and certain related products require
activation.
If you don't activate the product within the specified timeframe, the
product will cease to function until you activate it.
No personal data is transferred during the activation process.
If your development host is connected to the Internet, you
can activate QNX SDP automatically.
if your machine isn't connected to the Internet, you must
activate your software manually from a machine that is, by doing the
following:
- In the QNX SDP Activation dialog, click Activate Manually.
The Manual Activation dialog appears with an activate-prompt key.
This dialog has a button that you can use to save the activate-prompt key
in a file,
/etc/qnx/license/activate_prompt_key.txt.
This can eliminate the need to retype the key, which can be error-prone.
- Transfer the activate-prompt key to the machine that's connected
to the Internet.
- Go to our website,
www.qnx.com,
log into your myQNX account, and choose
Manual Product Activation.
- Enter the activate-prompt key into the form that appears, and then
click Generate Response Key.
This will return an activate-response key.
- Copy the activate-response key and paste it in a file.
- Transfer the file into
/etc/qnx/license/activate_response_key.txt on
your QNX SDP development host.
- If you closed the QNX SDP Activation dialog, open it again
by selecting
from the Launch menu, or by entering the following at a terminal prompt:
/etc/qnx/bin/qnxactivate -a
- Choose Activate Manually, and use the Load Response from File
button to load the activate-response key, and then click Activate.
If you choose not to activate at the time of installation, you can
activate later by selecting
from the Launch menu, or by entering the following at a terminal prompt:
/etc/qnx/bin/qnxactivate -a
If you installed an evaluation copy of QNX SDP 6.4.1, and you've now
received a commercial QNX license, do the following to add your
commercial license:
- Choose from the
Launch menu.
- Enter the license key.
- Read the displayed End User License Agreement (EULA) and accept its
terms if you wish to continue.
We recommend that you install QNX SDP on a machine that can boot
from a CD-ROM.
If your machine can't do this, you can create a bootable floppy.
The root directory of the QNX SDP Installation DVD or
the Installation and Boot CD contains an image
of a bootable floppy, named instflop.dat.
To copy this file to a boot disk:
- On UNIX-style machines (including QNX Neutrino),
use a utility such as dd to copy this image to a boot disk:
dd if=instflop.dat of=/dev/fd0
- On Windows, you need a raw-copy utility.
Although we don't support any such utilities, we recommend you use
rawwrite, which you can find at:
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite
Download this utility and extract it to a folder.
To create a bootable floppy:
- Start rawwrite.
- Make sure the Floppy Drive combo box refers to your floppy drive.
- Under the Write tab, specify the location of instflop.dat
in the Image File field, and click Write.
The Neutrino boot process can dynamically add block I/O (i.e. disk)
drivers, letting you boot on systems with newer controllers.
The mechanism is simple and not proprietary to QNX Software Systems, so
third parties can offer enhanced block drivers without any intervention on
our part.
For more information, see
“Updating disk drivers”
in the Controlling How Neutrino Starts chapter of the
Neutrino User's Guide.
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You should uninstall QNX products in the reverse order in which you
installed them.
To determine this order, use a command like this:
ls -lt `find base_directory -name "*uninstall*.sh"`
where base_directory is where you installed the
QNX Software Development Platform. |
If you want to uninstall QNX SDP completely, simply erase or delete the
partition you installed it in.
To determine the base directory for QNX SDP, open a command shell
and use the qconfig command.
For example:
$ qconfig
QNX Installations
Installation Name: QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.1
Version: 6.4.1
Base Directory: /usr/qnx641/
QNX_HOST: /usr/qnx641/host/qnx6/x86/
QNX_TARGET: /usr/qnx641/target/qnx6/
The base directory in this example is /usr/qnx641/,
but it could be different on your machine, depending on
where you installed QNX SDP.
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