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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Contents
About This Document
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Publishing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Document Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
HP-UX Release Name and Release Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
HP-UX 11i v2 Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Third-Party Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Other HP Web Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
HP Encourages Your Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1. Welcome to HP-UX 11i Version 2
Media Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Next Step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2. System Requirements for Cold-Installing and Updating
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How to Plan Your Disk Space Needs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Disk Space Allocation for File Partitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Disk Space Requirements for a Cold-Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Disk Space Requirements for an Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Supported Servers and Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Unsupported Servers and Workstations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Supported Network Drivers, Mass Storage Drivers, and SCSI Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Supported Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Identification of Model, OS/OE, and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Next Step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3. Choosing an Installation Method
Supported Cold-Install Paths to HP-UX 11i v2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Supported Update Paths to HP-UX 11i v2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Updating from HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 (B.11.11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Updating from HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 (B.11.22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49