Installation and Upgrade Guide

2.6 Beginning the Installation...............................................................................................................48
3 Installing the OpenVMS Operating System..............................................................49
3.1 Installation Tasks.............................................................................................................................49
3.2 Booting the OpenVMS Operating System Media...........................................................................49
3.2.1 Booting the OpenVMS I64 OE DVD.......................................................................................50
3.2.1.1 Booting from the Local Drive..........................................................................................50
3.2.1.2 Booting Over the Network Using the InfoServer utility.................................................51
3.2.1.3 Booting Using HP SIM Provisioning..............................................................................51
3.2.1.4 Booting Using vMedia.....................................................................................................52
3.3 Installing the OpenVMS Operating System onto a System Disk....................................................52
3.3.1 Differences Between OpenVMS I64 and Alpha Installations.................................................52
3.3.2 Responding to Prompts During the Installation.....................................................................52
3.3.3 Installing OpenVMS Using Option 1 of the Operating System Menu...................................53
3.4 Booting the New OpenVMS System Disk.......................................................................................72
3.4.1 Booting the OpenVMS I64 System Disk..................................................................................72
3.4.2 Next Steps................................................................................................................................73
3.5 Joining an OpenVMS Cluster..........................................................................................................74
3.6 Running AUTOGEN.......................................................................................................................75
3.7 Rebooting After AUTOGEN...........................................................................................................75
3.8 Logging In to the SYSTEM Account................................................................................................76
3.8.1 Logging In from a Character-Cell Terminal............................................................................76
3.8.2 Logging In from a Workstation...............................................................................................76
3.9 Postinstallation Tasks......................................................................................................................76
4 Before Upgrading the OpenVMS Operating System...............................................77
4.1 Preupgrade Tasks............................................................................................................................77
4.2 Documentation to Review Before Upgrading Your System...........................................................77
4.3 Notes, Cautions, and Restrictions...................................................................................................78
4.3.1 Upgrade Paths.........................................................................................................................78
4.3.2 Update License Requirements.................................................................................................78
4.3.3 Components You Choose Not to Install..................................................................................78
4.3.4 Licenses and Layered Products...............................................................................................79
4.4 Saving Archived Files from Being Deleted by the Upgrade...........................................................79
4.5 Preparing the System Disk..............................................................................................................79
4.5.1 Checking the Directory Structure and Preserving Your Security Protections........................79
4.5.2 Checking the SYSCOMMON Directories................................................................................79
4.5.3 Examining the System Disk....................................................................................................80
4.5.4 Checking the Size of the System Disk.....................................................................................80
4.5.5 Returning Authorization and AGEN$INCLUDE Files to the System Disk...........................81
4.5.5.1 Authorization Files..........................................................................................................81
4.5.5.2 AGEN$INCLUDE Files...................................................................................................82
4.5.6 Verifying System Parameters..................................................................................................82
4.6 Ensuring You Have a Recent FEEDBACK.DAT File.......................................................................83
4.7 Shadowing Environment................................................................................................................84
4.7.1 Setting the Boot Device...........................................................................................................85
4.7.2 Creating a Nonshadowed Target Disk....................................................................................85
4.8 Backing Up the System Disk...........................................................................................................85
4.9 Finishing Preupgrade Tasks............................................................................................................86
5 Preparing to Upgrade in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment.................................87
5.1 Preupgrade Tasks for OpenVMS Cluster Environments................................................................87
5.2 Review OpenVMS Cluster Information .........................................................................................87
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