HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Release Notes

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Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
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Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
This chapter describes compatibility and installation requirements for HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 on HP-UX 11i
v2.
HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Installation Requirements
This section provides a brief overview of HP-UX DCE 1.9 installation for HP- UX 11i v2, followed by
installation requirements.
Installation of HP-UX DCE 1.9 is described in Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076);
installation of HP-UX 11i v2 is described in Installation and Update Guide HP-UX 11i Version 2: HP Integrity
Servers, HP Workstations, and HP 9000 Servers (5990-8144).
System Requirements
The following sections discuss the hardware, disk space, operating system, and other requirements that must
be considered before installing HP-UX DCE 1.9.
Hardware Requirements
You require an HP Integrity server or HP-UX 9000 server.
Disk Space Requirements
Following are the disk space requirements for installing HP-UX DCE 1.9:
• Minimum 32 MB memory space for client-only systems; 64 MB for server systems
• Minimum 92 MB disk space required for a full installation
• Minimum 100 MB swap space for client-only systems; 150 MB for server systems
NOTE HP recommends device swap over file system swap.
Operating System Requirements
HP-UX 11i v2 is a prerequisite for installing HP-UX DCE 1.9.
Other Requirements
Following are the other requirements for installing HP-UX DCE 1.9:
• The HP-UX kernel parameter maxfiles must be increased to 256 and the parameter maxuser must be
increased to 64 for all systems. The maxdsize parameter may have to be increased for some systems.
Refer Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076) for more information.
NOTE You can check and, if necessary, change the kernel parameters, the swap space, or both, via
SAM (the HP-UX System Administration Manager).
• HP-UX DCE 1.9 must be installed on a long-name file system. If you have a short- name file system, you
must first run convertfs(1m) to convert your file system to long names.