704 Monitor Installation Oct88

This document, the "TOPS-10 Software Installation Guide" (AA-P512C-TB, October 1988), provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions for site administrators, system managers, system programmers, or software specialists. Its primary purpose is to guide users through the installation, upgrade, customization, and startup of the TOPS-10 Version 7.04 operating system and the GALAXY Version 5.1 batch and spooling system on KL and KS processors.

The guide is structured into several parts covering:

1. Getting Started: Essential preparation, including hardware configuration, material gathering, and information collection using provided worksheets.
2. Preparing the System: Detailed procedures for booting the system, starting the bootstrap monitor (including the ONCE dialogue), building the monitor file system by restoring files from distribution tapes, and setting up supplementary processor file systems for KL front-ends or KS microprocessors.
3. Upgrading an Existing System: Specific steps for restoring distribution tapes to update an existing TOPS-10 monitor and its associated file systems.
4. Building the Monitor and Tailoring the System: Instructions on customizing and building the TOPS-10 monitor using tools like MONGEN, linking and saving the monitor, creating bootable tapes, automating build procedures, and starting/tailoring the GALAXY system with GALGEN. It also covers maintaining system authorization files with REACT and creating system initialization files with INITIA.
5. Supplementary Information: Appendices offer additional details on ONCE startup options, modifying the monitor, setting scheduler parameters, and creating bootable front-end media for recovery purposes.