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12 Chapter 1

Before You Install

Planning Your New Installation

The Installation Process

This HP-UX installation procedure is similar to that used for previous

versions of HP-UX 10.x. During the cold install process, an install kernel

is booted from the HP-UX Install Media (see below) or from a server on

the network (Workstation (Series 700) only). Your system disk is then

initialized and the new system conﬁgured using a set of default

conﬁgurations supplied on the Install Media. You can either use one of

these default conﬁgurations or create your own custom conﬁguration.

Once the conﬁguration and initialization is complete, a new

full-functioned HP-UX operating system and applications are loaded

from the HP-UX 10.20 media (or from the network) onto your system

disk.

CAUTION A cold install will erase all existing data on the target disk(s) during the

process.

The HP-UX 10.20 cold install process is similar for all current HP 9000

computer platforms. See the ﬂow chart Figure 1-1 which outlines the

process.