SGI ProPack™ for Linux® Start Here

Document Number: 007-4558-014

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Julie Boney and Terry Schultz

Graphics by Chrystie Danzer

Production by Terry Schultz

COPYRIGHT

© 2003, 2004, 2005, Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

LIMITED RIGHTS LEGEND

The software described in this document is “commercial computer software” provided with restricted rights (except as to included open/free source) as specified in the FAR 52.227-19 and/or the DFAR 227.7202, or successive sections. Use beyond license provisions is a violation of worldwide intellectual property laws, treaties and conventions. This document is provided with limited rights as defined in 52.227-14.

TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, Altix, IRIX, OpenGL, Origin, Onyx, Onyx2, and XFS are registered trademarks and NUMAflex, NUMAlink, OpenGL Multipipe, OpenGL Performer, OpenGL Vizserver, OpenGL Volumizer, OpenMP, Performance Co-Pilot, SGI Advanced Linux, SGI ProPack, SGIconsole, SHMEM, and Silicon Graphics Prism are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.

SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3, but is not sponsored by or endorsed by Red Hat, Inc. in any way.

FLEXlm is a registered trademark of Macrovision Corporation. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. KAP/Pro Toolset and VTune are trademarks and Intel, Itanium, and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds, used with permission by Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technology, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. QLogic is a registered trademark of QLogic Corporation. Red Hat and all Red Hat-based trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

Record of Revision

Revision 001February 2003 
Original publication

Revision 002February 2003 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.1.1 for Linux release

Revision 003April 2003 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.1.2 for Linux release

Revision 004June 2003 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.2 for Linux release

Revision 005August 2003 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.2.1 for Linux release

Revision 006October 2003 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.3 for Linux release

Revision 007 February 2004 
Updated for SGI ProPack v2.4 for Linux release

Revision 008 May 2004 
Updated for SGI ProPack 3 for Linux release

Revision 009 August 2004 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 1 release

Revision 010November 2004 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 2 release

Revision 011January 2005 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 3 release

Revision 012February 2005 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 4 release

Revision 013April 2005 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 5 release

Revision 014June 2005 
Updated for the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux Service Pack 6 release