HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, September 2004
Table Of Contents
- 1 Welcome to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 2 System Requirements for Cold-Installing and Updating
- 3 Choosing an Installation Method
- Supported Cold-Install Paths to HP-UX 11i v2
- Supported Update Paths to HP-UX 11i v2
- Deciding Which Method to Use
- Time to Complete a Cold Install or Update
- When to Cold-Install
- When to Update
- Additional Cold-Install Considerations
- Additional Update Considerations
- Requirement for Updating from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22)
- Requirement for Updating from Earlier Releases of HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)
- HP Service Partition Is Not Created During Update (Itanium-based Systems Only)
- Update-UX Contains a Default-Installed Selection File
- Update-UX Creates Two Backup Configurations
- Security Considerations
- Standard HP-UX Bundle Considerations
- Online Diagnostics
- Offline Diagnostics
- The Next Step
- 4 Preparing to Install or Update to HP-UX 11i v2
- 5 Cold-Installing HP-UX 11i v2
- 6 Updating to HP-UX 11i v2
- 7 Installing HP Applications and Patches
- 8 Verifying System Install or Update
- A Data Collection Tables
- B Known Problems and Troubleshooting
- C Controlling Memory Utilization of VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX
- D Software Distribution Media
- HP-UX 11i v2 Core Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Patch Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Network and Mass Storage Drivers
- HP-UX 11i v2 Default-Installed Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Selectable Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Selectable Network Drivers

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• After installation of HP-UX 11iv2, all HP-specific documentation is
included in the HP Apache-based Web Server software:
http://
yourserver
.com/hp_apache_docs
Or you can find it in the /opt/apache/hp_apache_docs/ directory.
The latest information for the HP Apache-based Web Server is at the
following web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/webserver
• HP Technical Documentation feedback form:
http://docs.hp.com/assistance/feedback.html
• HP-UX 11i v2 documentation, including release notes, guides, and
white papers:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv2
• HP-UX 11i v2 information:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com
http://www.hp.com
• Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems:
http://docs.hp.com
• HP-UX patches and patch information from the HP IT Resource
Center web:
http://itrc.hp.com
Select maintenance and support for hp products, then select
the appropriate patching tools. To receive HP Security Bulletins,
under maintenance and support, select subscribe to security
bulletin and patch digests.
TIP To simplify sharing of patch information, you may want to copy the
documentation files onto your own system. The hyperlinks from the
HTML bundle readme files to the patch text files will work as long as
the HTML files reside in the same directory as the TEXT_FILES
subdirectory.