Cold-installing HP-UX 11i v1.6

Cold-install means installing system software on a new (un-installed) or existing system disks by completely rebuilding the volume group (see “Backing Up Your System”), erasing the existing operating system and data on that volume, and installing the new operating system and specified software and data.

An advantage of cold-install is that supported software can be installed without regard for the software currently on the system, or concern for cleaning up old software.

Cold-install when...

We recommend using Ignite-UX to cold-install HP-UX 11i v1.6 in the following situations:

The cold-install process using Ignite-UX is described in Chapter 3 “Installing HP-UX 11i Version 1.6”.

Installing network drivers

Installing HP-UX 11i v1.6 will install a minimum set of default networking drivers that apply to the system (see Table D-2 “HP-UX 11i v1.6 Software Bundles and Descriptions”). You may need to select or specify other available networking drivers to enable other cards on your system (see Table 2-3 “HP-UX11i v1.6 Selectable Drivers”). This can easily be done during the install by following the instructions in “How to Install HP-UX 11i Version 1.6”.

	IMPORTANT: After deciding how to cold install, review the Read Before Installing to HP-UX 11i DVD booklet for situations that may apply to your system. Then proceed to collect key system information and back up your current system as explained next.

Planning your HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Install

See the following documents supplied with the HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 media for additional information:

• Read Before Installing HP-UX 11i Version 1.6

  The DVD booklet that has last-minute information regarding installing and the release.

  This document is also available at HP's user documentation Web site:

  http://docs.hp.com

• HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

  Describes changes included in this release. On your system, look in /usr/share/docs.

  This document is also available on the Instant Information CD supplied with HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 media and on the web:

  http://docs.hp.com

• Ignite-UX documentation

  For the latest information on downloading and using Ignite-UX, go to the Ignite-UX Web site:

  http://software.hp.com/software/HPsoftware/IUX

	WARNING! Cold-installing HP-UX overwrites everything on the target disk, including other disk partitions. HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 does not support sharing the root disk with any other operating system.

	CAUTION: If you need to re-install your system at any point, the root disk will be overwritten and all data on it will be lost. For that reason, we recommend that you do not put user data on the root disk.