SYSGEN COMMANDS
2-2 XEROX 4635 LASER PRINTING SYSTEM—SYSTEM GENERATION GUIDE
Command functions
The following commands may appear in the Sysgen Command
menu, depending upon the hardware options present on your
system. Command abbreviations are underlined.
Command Function
C
OMMANDS Displays the Sysgen Command menu on the printing system display screen. (The
menu does not have to display for you to enter a command.)
B
OOT Boots the operating system. If a sysgen has been performed, any sysgen patches
are applied. This command must be the first entered after completing a SYSGEN
command.
S
YSGEN Builds a new operating system on the system disks from a system software tape or
from system software tape (SST) files downloaded from a host computer. All system
files can be updated. A SYSGEN or AUTO sysgen is performed depending upon
whether FORMAT was previously invoked.
This option requires more user interaction than AUTO, and you must use it if the
SST is to be downloaded from a host computer.
A BOOT command must follow successful completion of this command.
F
ORMAT Formats any or all of the system disks and performs a sector check. All files on the
system disks, except for the MBAIS file, are destroyed. This includes user files. This
procedure is not normally needed unless specifically called for in your OSS program
description or unless read errors or other disk problems occur. (Refer to ERASE.)
H
OSTCOPY Downloads font files, patch files, and user-generated EBCDIC data files from a host
computer to the LPS system disks. This option allows an online printing system,
with no magnetic tape drive, to retrieve tape files from the host.
A
UTO Builds a new operating system on the system disks from a SST or diskettes (SSF),
except on the 4635/4635MX LPS, and allows all system files to be updated. A
SYSGEN or AUTO sysgen is performed depending upon whether FORMAT was
previously invoked.
When you use AUTO for a recently formatted disk, configuration information is no
longer available to the system from the disks and must be entered, as though the
SYSGEN command had been used. The only truly automatic sysgen, using AUTO,
can be an update sysgen.
This option requires less user interaction than SYSGEN by automatically invoking a
standard sequence of sysgen commands. It differs from SYSGEN in the following
ways:
• AUTO builds from tape input only.
• AUTO does not ask for a configuration update.
• AUTO automatically saves the accounting file.
