Chapter 13. Installing HP-UX | HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration

Chapter Syllabus

13.1 Introduction to HP Workstations and Servers

13.2 Installing HP-UX

13.3 Guided Installation

13.4 Advanced Installation

13.5 Initial System Configuration

The installation process starts by interrupting the normal boot process of an HP system. In the normal boot process, a server or workstation tries to boot from the primary boot path. By interrupting this boot process, you can specify a different boot path containing HP-UX Install and Core OS installation media. For a successful system installation process, you need to determine the type of your hardware and check its compatibility with the HP-UX version you are installing. If the HP-UX version is supported on your system, you can use Core OS Media (usually a CD-ROM) to install HP-UX. Once you start the installation process, you can select guided installation, advanced installation, or an installation with default values. Installation with default values requires minimum user interaction. During the installation process, you configure system parameters such as the HP-UX environment, system disk, swap space, and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) file systems. You can also select the system language and the number of user licenses. These parameters are common to both guided and advanced installations. However, when you use the advanced installation method, you can also make network settings and changes to logical volume sizes. An example of creating logical volumes on a 4-GByte disk space will be presented during the advanced installation process (Section 13.4).

After the installation process is complete, HP-UX restarts the computer, and you can log into HP-UX as user root and carry out postinstallation tasks. These tasks include installation of additional patches and applications. You may also have to install software drivers if a device driver is not already built into the kernel. An important task is to tune kernel parameters depending on the applications being installed. The kernel configuration process is discussed in Chapter 16.

This chapter starts with a brief introduction to HP servers and workstations. Then we will walk through an installation process on a server, where guided installation and advanced installation methods will be discussed.

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