Planning Your New Installation

Media for the Release

The following CDs are supplied with typical Media Kits, for Workstations or for Servers, as indicated:

Workstations:

Servers:

Installation Tasks

During the HP-UX 10.20 installation process, you will need to do the following:

Some of these tasks may require previous experience or the availability of a system administrator.

Before you begin the install process, you should be prepared to enter some information as part of the process (especially if you are installing any part of the OS and applications from a network source). The process may ask for such information as the following:

If you have a DHCP server available, the network information can be provided automatically. See Appendix B “Configuring for a DHCP Server ”

After you have installed the 10.20 operating system, you will use other HP-UX tools, utilities and scripts to set up windowing, networking, printing, mail, etc. This document does not cover these post-installation activities. For further information on these tasks, see the manual System Administration Tasks (HP Part No. B2355-90079).

What is a Cold Install?

A cold install is performed when your new system does not come with a pre-loaded operating system, or when a system is corrupted and you want to start over with a new HP-UX 10.x system.

If you purchased your system with the HP-UX Instant Ignition option, a version of HP-UX has already been installed, according to the specification in your order. You do not need to reinstall it unless you want to make changes in the disk layout.

The Installation Process

This HP-UX installation procedure is similar to that used for previous versions of HP-UX 10.x. During the cold install process, an install kernel is booted from the HP-UX Install Media (see below) or from a server on the network (Workstation (Series 700) only). Your system disk is then initialized and the new system configured using a set of default configurations supplied on the Install Media. You can either use one of these default configurations or create your own custom configuration. Once the configuration and initialization is complete, a new full-functioned HP-UX operating system and applications are loaded from the HP-UX 10.20 media (or from the network) onto your system disk.

	CAUTION: A cold install will erase all existing data on the target disk(s) during the process.

The HP-UX 10.20 cold install process is similar for all current HP 9000 computer platforms. See the flow chart Figure 1-1 “The Cold Install Process” which outlines the process.

Figure 1-1 The Cold Install Process

Each of the steps in the diagram is explained in Chapter 2.

The HP-UX 10.20 Install Media

The Install program software is a single, self-contained volume on CD-ROM (combined with the HP-UX core) which contains the following Install items:

Lif File Purpose

ISL

The initial system loader.

HPUX

A secondary loader.

AUTO

The auto-boot file.

CONFIG

The file that describes the default system configurations which you can specify.

INSTALL

The install kernel.

INSTALLFS

Install RAM File System.

INSTCMDS

A compressed tar-archive containing the commands used during the install process in the RAM-FS.

SYSCMDS

A compressed tar-archive containing the mini-system that is extracted prior to running the SD-UX software management commands.

See the Release Notes on your system (/usr/share/doc) for the list of other patches and components on your Install and Core CD

There are separate CD-ROMs for HP Workstation (Series 700) and Server (Series 800) hardware. For both, the delivery medium is CD-ROM, except for certain custom deliveries.

On HP 9000 Workstations (Series 700), the Install Kernel can also be loaded from a network source. See the section “Booting from a Network (Workstation/Series 700, B, C J Only) ”, in Chapter 2 “Installing HP-UX ”for more information on network installations.

	NOTE: The ability to load the 10.20 install kernel from a network source is not available on HP Server (Series 800) computers. For these computers, you must load the install kernel from the physical media. You can, however, then install Server OS and application products from a network SD-UX server, once the install kernel has been loaded from local media.

Supported Hardware

Workstations

The following new workstation hardware is supported on this release, at the time of printing. (See your HP representative for updated information):

The following are supported for NFS diskless client-server configurations:

Servers

Server systems supported on this release include the following: T600, K370, K570, K380, and K580. See your HP representative for updated support information.

Hardware-Specific OS Enhancements

The J2240 Software

This J2240 Software and other enablement software on your Install and Core disc contain special versions of the HP-UX Install and Core OS for use with the new J2240 PA-RISC workstation and other systems

The J2240 software includes two Additional Core Enhancement (ACE) bundles for HP-UX. The July 1997 Workstation ACE bundle adds support to HP-UX for the PA-RISC 8200 processor, Ultra SCSI I/O, 100 BaseT networking, VISUALIZE-FX graphics, and the OpenGL 3-D programming API. The current (April 1998) ACE adds multiprocessor (MP) configuration support for the J2240.

The Install and Core OS CD-ROM contains all software necessary to boot and run a J2240 workstation:

	CAUTION: Do not remove either of the Workstation ACE bundles from a J2240 computer. This software is necessary to boot and run the J2240.

Before You Install a J2240

For information on upgrading your J282 system, see the instructions in Model J2240 Upgrade (P/N A2876-90012).

For detailed installation information, use this manual.

For information on known problems, refer to the "Known Problems" section of the current Release Notes (online on your new system, in /usr/share/doc/ or available on the HP Software Depot web site: www.software.hp.com .