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24 Chapter 1

Before You Install

Choosing the Install Source

An HP-UX 10.20 cold install can be made from two different sources.

• Physical media (CD-ROM). See “Booting from Media (All Series)”, in

Chapter 2, “Installing HP-UX.”

• Network source. See the next section, “Setting Up the Network

Install Source”.

You can also choose to load only the Install Kernel from the installation

media and then load the Core OS bundles and products from a network

source. This would be especially useful for a Series 800 system, which

does not support booting over a network at this time.

Setting Up the Network Install Source

A "network cold install" uses another machine on the network as its

installation source. Once this is set up, a network install is the fastest

installation method. Complete network cold installs can be performed on

a Series 700 system only, but you can use either a Series 700 or Series

800 as the install server. After an install server is set up on your

network, you can boot new systems from the server, and once booted, the

installation process is similar to installing from physical media.

Requirements for a network install server are:

1. HP-UX 10.20 on the server system. See “Hardware Requirements”, in

this chapter.

2. Your server must be on the same network subnet as the system that

will be booted. This may require having one server on each subnet

from which to boot clients.

3. You must have the HPUX-Install product or NetInstall bundle

loaded on the server. If HPUX-Install is not installed on your server,

you must load it from the 10.20 Core-OS media using the swinstall

command. You can obtain the HPUX-Install product by loading the

entire NetInstall bundle from the Core-OS media.

4. You will need about 21 MB of free space in the server /usr/lib

directory to accommodate HPUX-INSTALL.