HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2009 (Update 4 Release)

This section contains the following tasks:
• “Task 1: Booting Your Machine” (page 65)
• “Task 2: Selecting Your Installation Type” (page 67)
• “Task 3: Configuring Your Installation” (page 69)
• “Task 4: Finishing Your Installation” (page 72)
CAUTION: The cold-install process overwrites everything on all disks selected to
participate in the install. Make sure you have completed backups in “Backing Up Your
System” (page 56).
Before You Begin
Before you cold-install HP-UX 11i v3, you need to collect information about your
existing system. This section contains tables where you can record information. Then,
when you are installing HP-UX 11i v3, you use information from the Miscellaneous
Data and Network Data collection tables when needed.
Use the collection tables:
• If you chose the Advanced Installation, an interface gives you the opportunity to
enter all of this data at the beginning of the install. The Advanced Installation also
gives you more control over file system configuration. The interface is a tabbed
file-folder and character-based.
• If you choose to network-enable your system, you must designate a unique host
name, host Internet Protocol (IP) address, and other network information for your
server.
Contact your site network administrator for the details to include in these tables.
NOTE: During an installation, Ignite-UX configures the root, dump, and swap devices
with the new HP-UX 11i v3 mass storage stack agile addressing representation. This
means that, after installing, the commands that display the boot, dump, and swap
devices will show them using the agile form. During a cold-install of HP-UX 11i v3,
both legacy and persistent DSFs are automatically created. By default, the installation
process will configure system devices like the boot, root, swap, and dump devices to
use persistent DSFs. For more information on the new mass storage stack, see the white
paper called, The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack: HP-UX 11i v3 at http://docs.hp.com/
Miscellaneous Data Collection Table
Table 5-1 may contain some items that are not familiar to you, but you will be prompted
for this information during the install.
The install process describes all options in detail, so you can defer making decisions
about items that are unfamiliar to you until you reach that point in the install.
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