Installing HP-UX 11.0 and Updating HP-UX 10.x to 11.0 HP 9000 Computers Edition 1

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Conﬁguring an Ignite-UX Server

Installing Server Software

The Logical Volume Manager is offered on all HP 9000 platforms.

Because it helps to organize ﬁle space across multiple physical disks, you

are encouraged to adopt this method of disk management, if you are

using multiple disks. See the manual System Administration Tasks, or

the lvm(7) man page for details.

Series 700 Software Disk Striping is replaced by LVM disk striping for

all HP-UX 10.x systems. LVM disk striping is supported by Ignite-UX.

SDS can be converted to LVM via the utility sdstolvm. If you upgrade to

HP-UX 10.x from 9.x, as opposed to installing it, this conversion will be

done for you automatically during the upgrade.

LVM disk striping can be set up on some volumes during the installation.

However, striped volumes cannot be mirrored later on. Note that not all

types of volumes may striped. This is due to an unbalanced amount of

disk space assigned to the root/boot/swap volumes on the root disk that

must not be striped.

Network Requirements.

If you are loading your server depots or client software from a remote

system, your target system also will need the following:

• A network card. If the target system has multiple LAN cards, select

the card that is conﬁgured onto the correct network using Ignite-UX

→ System Tab → Additional Interfaces.

Only one LAN card is used during the installation, conﬁgured on the

client console or handled automatically by the bootsys utility.

Your server system will need to be conﬁgured. In addition you will need

the following:

• The server system must be on the same network subnet as the target

(client) system that will be installed. Or you will need a "helper"

system on each subnet from which to boot clients.

• A functional network connection. If you have more than one LAN

connection, be prepared to select the correct one with which to

connect to the install server system.

Note: You can only boot over the network from an Ethernet interface.

FDDI is also supported, but for non-booting only.