SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 87
SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
The E-42B ships with pre-installed system software on the hard disk drive. If you must
reinstall system software when servicing the E-42B, use the latest System Software and User
Software DVDs.
Before installing system software
Consider the following settings and features before you install system software.
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Battery, date, and time: If you removed or replaced the motherboard battery during
service, make sure to configure the time and date in Setup before installing system
software. Otherwise, the system may hang during the user software installation segment
(see page 115).
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Backup/restore: Before you reinstall the system software, check with the site administrator
if there is any backup available to restore.
NOTE: If there is a backup for the entire hard disk drive, make sure to restore this backup first
in the Fiery System Installer. Doing so ensures that all the customized settings and jobs on the
HDD(s) will be restored. If this backup is not available, restore the image from recovery
partition, which is provided with the E-42B by default. This will restore the E-42B to the
factory default setting. You must install the system software using the System Software DVDs
only when you replaced the hard disk drive, or restoring the backup does not solve the
problem you are troubleshooting.
It is recommended to create a backup of the entire hard disk drive after you install the system
software and run the initial Setup. To create the backup or restore the system, use the Fiery
System Installer. For more information, see Configuration and Setup, which is part of the user
documentation set.
The following issues apply to the scenario where you reinstall the system from the System
Software DVDs.
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Jobs: All jobs in all print queues, and all jobs archived locally on the E-42B hard disk drive
are deleted when you reinstall the system software. To save jobs, ask the site administrator
to archive them to a CD/DVD or a location on the network, so that the jobs can be
imported back into the E-42B queue after system software installation. For more
information, see Command WorkStation Help.
Notify the network administrator at the customer site that some archived jobs may no longer
print after you install an updated version of the system software.
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Job Log: The list of jobs in the Job Log and any jobs in the queues are deleted when you
install system software. The network administrator can use Command WorkStation to
save a current list of jobs (not the actual jobs) from the Job Log.
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