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18 Chapter 1
Before You Install
System Requirements
Other Devices Your system can also have any HP-supported device. If
you have an unsupported device connected to your
system, HP assumes no responsibility in making that
device function properly.
Supported Peripherals
With the disk space provision above, all disk drives that are supported as
HP Workstation and Server system disks are supported for installation.
Disk arrays can be installed with HP-UX, but the installation tasks do
not support configuring an array. See your array documentation for
configuration information.
The HP-UX installation tools support VT100 and Wyse 60 terminals,
compatible emulations, and all HP terminals.
Supported File System Types and Layouts
The HP-UX 10.20 file system layout is quite different from HP-UX 9.0x
releases. The 10.20 file system is modeled after the UNIX™ SVR4 and
OSF/1 systems. This layout provides such benefits as the separation of
OS software from application software, and it also resembles the UNIX
standard layout used by many other computer companies.
File System Types HP-UX 10.20 supports the following file system types:
• UFS/HFS or VxFS (Journaled File System) on local disk volumes.
• NFS.
Disk Layouts The file system for a cold-installed HP-UX will be supported on the
following disk layouts:
• "Whole disk" (single file system, single swap partition disk layouts as
on HP-UX 9.0 for Series 700).
• The Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
The Logical Volume Manager is offered on both the Series 700 and Series
800 platforms. Because it helps to organize file space across multiple
physical disks, you are encouraged to adopt this method of disk
management. See the manual System Administration Tasks, or the
lvm(7) man page for details.