What You Will Find In This Book

Chapter 2 “Choosing a Migration Path” provides information and scenarios to help you decide the most appropriate method to move your system to HP-UX 11i v1.

Chapter 3 “Install/Update System Requirements” details the system requirements to either install or update to HP-UX 11i v1.

Chapter 4 “Preparing To Move To HP-UX 11i v1” details the required and recommended tasks to prepare your system for HP-UX 11i v1. This chapter also includes additional information about required, default and optional software installed with HP-UX 11i v1.

Chapter 5 “ Cold Installing HP-UX 11i v1” shows you how to cold-install HP-UX 11i v1 operating system, a selected operating environment, network drivers, CDE language bundle, diagnostics, and required patches. Alternative cold-install methods such as installing from depots or from golden images are also discussed.

Chapter 6 “Updating to HP-UX 11i v1” shows you how to update your system to HP-UX 11i v1 using the update-ux command. Several examples are provided to assist you with your update scenario.

Chapter 7 “Verifying System Migration” shows you how to verify a successful install or update to HP-UX 11i v1.

Chapter 8 “Updating Applications” shows you how to update applications on your system that are not installed or updated with HP-UX 11i v1 operating environments.

Chapter 9 “Next Steps” provides you an overview of additional configuration and maintenance tasks.

Appendix A “Booting HP Servers and Workstations” describes booting various HP servers and workstations using the built-in Boot ROM firmware interface.

Appendix B “Known Problems and Troubleshooting” contains critical information for you to review before you start installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v1.

Appendix C “Using the update-ux Tool” provides a brief overview of how to use the update-ux tool during the update process.

Appendix D “Configuring Built-In PCI Networking” describes configuring built-in (or core) PCI networking cards in HP workstations and servers.