Loading HP-UX
With the section of the
Ignite-UX server, or DVD-ROM if you load from media, having been run,
complete the installation by first selecting all the basic information,
as shown in Figure 1.
The Advanced Installation
menu lets you choose from among the menu tab areas with the ability of
going back and forth among them until you are satisfied with your
choices.
Across the top of the menu display are five tab areas: Basic, Software, System, File System, and Advanced.
By pressing the Tab key, each area can be highlighted. To select the
highlighted tab area, press the Enter/Return key. This causes that tab
area's screen to appear. Within each of these areas are several
parameters that can be modified for your specific system. Here are the
main features of each tab area:
Basic-
configuration and environment information.
Software-
ability to choose optional software to be installed. Mostly the same options that appear under Guided Installation.
System-
networking parameters. Also configurable via the set_parms command.
File System-
disk space allocation.
Advanced-
advanced disk, file system, logical volume, and volume group parameters.
I'll begin to configure the system beginning with the Basic screen, as shown in Figure 3-1.
Here are the items of particular importance:
Configuration-
I selected HP-UX B.11.23 Default.
HP-UX 11i version 2 update 2 is called by its original name, 11.23, in
some cases. I could select other operating systems from the Ignite-UX
server, including a recovery archive, which was earlier produced for
this partition.
Environments-
Mission Critical OE-64bit is selected in the example. The four OE selections are as follows:
Mission Critical OE-64bit .>] (HP-UX B.11.23)
Enterprise OE-64bit
Foundation OE-64bit
HP-UX 11i Base OS-64bit
Root Disk-
the default selection for the root disk is the first internal
disk drive. There are two internal drives available to this partition.
File System-
There are the three following options available in this area the first of which is selected:
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) with VxFS
Whole disk with VxFS
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) with VxFS
Root Swap
-
the system automatically selects an amount twice the size of your
main memory, or a maximum of 4,096 MB. Consider your primary swap space
very carefully. The partition has 16 GB of memory so the maximum of
4,096 is selected.
Languages-
I'll install English on this system; however, many languages are available for 11i systems.
Additional
-
this is the pick at the bottom-right corner of the screen, not
the tab area. Here, you can configure such things as creating an /export
volume, create a EFI partition since this is an Integrity server,
create second swap area, add disk drives to the root volume, and
disabling Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP.) With 11i, DHCP,
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, works with an Ignite-UX server that
automatically assigns system name, IP address, and so on.
Moving to the Software
tab area, you see a small portion of the software listing on the
Ignite-UX server for 11i that has been marked for installation as part
of Mission Critical Operating Environment shown in Figure 2.
Although you can't see it in Figure 2, the Category of software selected is All.
Other software that you may want to install can be selected from the
installation source. In this figure the first two items have been
selected automatically as part of the Mission Critical Operating Environment. At this point, you could select additional software, such as Ignite, which you want to load for all operating systems on your Ignite-UX server, and Netscape Directory Server
in this window. The full Mission Critical OE is available for
selection. If you were installing from a DVD, you might have additional
media from which to load and select software. This is done using
Software Distributor.You may want to look at this overview to get a feeling for the
type of functionality that Software Distributor offers. The swinstall program is the Software Distributor program used to install software.
You could select one of the other categories, such as HPUXAdditions, which would show software such as Bundle11i.
The System tab area, shown in Figure 3,
is where system identification-related configuration information can be
found. Because I want to configure networking and related information
after the installation is complete, I change only the first item on this
screen. The options for the first item are as follows:
Final system parameters: [Set parameters now]
[Ask at first boot]
I select Set Parameters Now.
The File System tab area, shown in Figure 3,
is of particular importance. Here, you can change file system sizes.
You probably won't be satisfied with the default sizes of some of the
logical volumes. I normally spend some time in this tab area increasing
the sizes of some of the logical volumes. Figure 4 also shows the layout of the File System screen and the values of three of the logical volumes. /stand is highlighted in this example, so the parameters related to it appear under Usage, Size, and so on.
To make logical volume size changes, select the mount directory of the logical volume, tab down to Size, and enter the desired new size. In addition to Size, several other parameters are related to the logical volume that you can change.
Notice that Avail
shows you how much disk space is left to be allocated on your disk
drive. It is perfectly all right to leave some disk space unallocated.
This gives you a cushion for when you need to increase disk space down
the road.
After making all the
volume size-related modifications, you are ready to install the system.
However, you first want to choose the Show Summary
option, which is toward the bottom of the screen. This option shows you
a summary of all the changes you made. This gives you a chance to make
sure that you didn't forget something. Figure 5 shows the General Summary screen.
This screen provides
information on the software you have selected to load and information on
your logical volumes. Although you can view items on this screen, you'd
have to go back to previous screens to make modifications to the items.
Figure 6 shows the Hardware Inventory Summary screen.
The Hardware Inventory screen information provides a summary of system hardware.
Becasue I am satisfied with all the modifications I have made, I'm ready to load the operating system. I choose OK, which appears at the bottom of all the tab area screens. The screen in Figure 7 appears.
The screen in Figure 7
warns me that there is an operating system already present my our
target disk, but I want to proceed with the installation anyway, so
select Go!.
The load of the HP-UX is automatic at this point, and you can come back
in an hour or so to check the log file to see if loading the operating
system completed successfully.
It may be that your HP-UX 11i Operating Environment
requires more than one DVD-ROM to complete the installation. In this
case, you are prompted to insert the additional media. This is an
additional reason to set up an Ignite-UX server to accomplish much
faster and efficient initial loads of operating systems, as well as
add-on loads of applications, patches, and so on. I almost invariably
set up Ignite-UX servers in environments in which many partitions need
to be installed and maintained. The initial system load needs to take
place from media.
As part of the operating system load process under the System
tab, I specify a system name, IP address, subnet mask, and some other
information. You would specify this information after the load takes
place if you choose not to enter it when the initial load occurs.
The next section covers the set_parms program that runs after system installation if you do not enter Network Configuration during system installation. 
