VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (September 2004)

Setting up the VxVM Environment
Using vxinstall
Chapter 3
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NOTE vxinstall shows default responses in parentheses; to choose the default, press Return. You can
quit the initialization at any time by typing q at any of the vxinstall prompts. Disks are
initialized at the end of the vxinstall procedure. If you quit vxinstall before it initializes
the disks, all disks are left as they were before vxinstall was started.
To use the Custom Installation option, perform the following procedure:
Step 1. Select menu item 2 (Custom Installation) from the vxinstall main menu.
The vxinstall program asks you a series of questions for each disk array and disk connected to
your system. To accept a default response displayed in parentheses, press Return.
NOTE At any of the vxinstall prompts, you can select q to completely abandon the initialization and start
over.
Step 2. The vxinstall program now goes through each disk array and asks you how to handle the disks
contained on that disk array. The vxinstall program begins this process for each disk array by
identifying the controller and generating a list of its disks.
If any disks are listed in the /etc/vx/disks.exclude, /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude, or
/etc/vx/enclr.exclude file, they are listed here separately as excluded disks.
Step 3. Press Return to continue.
Step 4. Indicate how you want the disks on this disk array to be handled at the following prompt:
Installation options for enclosure enc0
Menu: VolumeManager/Install/Custom/enc0
1 Install all disks as new disks.(discards data on disks!)
2 Install one disk at a time.
3 Leave these disks alone.
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menusSelect an operation to perform:
• To initialize all disks in the disk array, select 1.
CAUTION Initializing a disk destroys all data on the disk.
All disks in the disk array are reinitialized. This destroys all data and partitions on each disk and
makes the disk available as free space for allocating new volumes, or mirrors of existing volumes.
If you are running the vxinstall program on new disks that have never been placed under
Volume Manager control before, choose this option.
Indicate whether you want default disk names to be assigned to all of the disks in the disk array at
the following prompt:
Use default disk names for these disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
If you enter y, the vxinstall program automatically assigns and lists default disk names for
each disk, as follows:
The c1t0d0 disk will be given disk name disk01
The c1t1d0 disk will be given disk name disk02
Hit RETURN to continue.