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Running AUTOGEN  



The system next runs AUTOGEN to evaluate your hardware configuration and estimate typical work loads. AUTOGEN then sets system parameters, the sizes of page, swap, and dump files, and the contents of VMSIMAGES.DAT. When AUTOGEN finishes and you reboot your system, the installation procedure is complete.

The installation procedure displays messages similar to the following:

    AUTOGEN will now be run to compute the new SYSGEN parameters. The system
    will then shut down and reboot, and the installation or upgrade will be
    complete.
 
    After rebooting you can continue with such system management tasks as:
 
            Decompressing the System Libraries
            Configuring DECnet
            Using SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM to create an OpenVMS Cluster
            Creating FIELD, SYSTEST, and SYSTEST_CLIG accounts if needed
 
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GETDATA phase is beginning.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$SYSTEM:PARAMS.DAT has been created.
        You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-END, GETDATA phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GENPARAMS phase is beginning.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$MANAGER:VMSIMAGES.DAT has been created.
         You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-NEWFILE, A new version of SYS$SYSTEM:SETPARAMS.DAT has been created.
        You may wish to purge this file.
%AUTOGEN-I-END, GENPARAMS phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GENFILES phase is beginning.
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;1 extended
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS;1 extended
%SYSGEN-I-CREATED, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]SYSDUMP.DMP;1 created
 
%AUTOGEN-I-REPORT, AUTOGEN has produced some informational messages that
        have been stored in the file SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT. You may
        wish to review the information in that file.
 
%AUTOGEN-I-END, GENFILES phase has successfully completed.
%AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, SETPARAMS phase is beginning.
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Automatic Reboot after AUTOGEN  

After AUTOGEN finishes, the system automatically reboots, displaying messages similar to the following:

The system is shutting down to allow the system to boot with the
generated site-specific parameters and installed images.
 
The system will automatically reboot after the shutdown and the
installation will be complete.
 
 
 
        SHUTDOWN -- Perform an Orderly System Shutdown
                    on node ALPCSI
 
%SHUTDOWN-I-BOOTCHECK, performing reboot consistency check...
%SHUTDOWN-I-CHECKOK, basic reboot consistency check completed
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Manual Reboot after AUTOGEN  

If the system does not reboot automatically, reboot the system manually.

For example, if the system disk is on an RZ25 disk drive with a unit number of 1, enter the following command and press the Return key:

>>> BOOT DKA1
When the system starts booting, a message similar to the following is displayed:
     OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version 7.3-2
 
     Copyright (c) 1976-2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
 
%STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at 27-MAY-2003 14:50:18.35
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The system next displays informational messages and accounting information indicating that your OpenVMS Alpha operating system has finished booting and is now ready for use. For example:
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 64, current interactive value = 0
  SYSTEM       job terminated at  27-MAY-2003 14:51:23.47
   Accounting information:
   Buffered I/O count:            2177     Peak working set size:    6848
   Direct I/O count:              1358     Peak page file size:    179552
   Page faults:                   1805     Mounted volumes:             0
   Charged CPU time:     0 00:00:13.37     Elapsed time:    0 00:01:06.20
At this time, you can log in to the SYSTEM account (so you can perform postinstallation tasks), as described in the following sections.
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