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Installation Guide

Table of Contents

About This Book

  • Who Should Use This Book
  • Highlighting
  • Viewing README Files
  • ISO 9000
  • Related Publications
  • Trademarks

    • Chapter 1. Installing the Base Operating System

  • Electronic License Agreements
  • Step 1. Completing the Prerequisites
  • Step 2. Preparing Your System for Installation
  • Step 3. Setting Up with an ASCII Terminal
  • Step 4. Booting from Your Installation Media
  • Step 5. Verifying or Changing the Installation Settings
  • Step 6. Finishing the BOS Installation

    • Chapter 2. Migration Installation

  • Binary Compatibility Between Earlier Versions and AIX 5.1
  • Migrating to AIX 5.1
  • Step 1. Completing the Prerequisites
  • Step 2. Preparing Your System for Installation
  • Step 3. Booting from Your Installation Media
  • Step 4. Finishing the BOS Migration
  • Migrating Network Software
  • Migrating TCP/IP from AIX 3.2
  • Migrating NFS and NIS from AIX 3.2

    • Chapter 3. Configuring the Operating System

  • Configuration Assistant
  • Installation Assistant
  • Where Do I Go Next?

    • Chapter 4. Optional Software Products and Service Updates

  • Software Product Identification
  • Software Licensing
  • Installing Optional Software Products and Service Updates
  • Step 1. Completing the Prerequisites
  • Step 2. Completing the Installation
  • Installing Optional Software Products or Service Updates with Web-based System Manager
  • Installing Optional Software and Service Updates Using SMIT
  • Completing the SMIT Installation and Reading the Status Messages
  • Maintaining Optional Software Products and Service Updates
  • Apply Action (Service Updates Only)
  • Commit Action (Service Updates Only)
  • Reject Action (Service Updates Only)
  • Remove Action (Software Products Only)
  • Cleaning Up Optional Software Products and Service Updates
  • Where Do I Go Next?

    • Chapter 5. Documentation Library Service and Online Documentation

  • Using the Documentation Library Service
  • Testing the Documentation Library Service
  • Configuring the Documentation Library Service
  • Using Configuration Assistant for the Documentation Library Service
  • Manually Installing and Configuring the Documentation Library Service
  • Installing the Server
  • Installing the Client
  • Installing the Online Documentation
  • Documentation CD
  • Removing Book Links
  • Where Do I Go Next?

    • Chapter 6. Creating System Backups

  • Introduction
  • Prerequisites for Creating Backups
  • Creating a Root Volume Group Backup to Tape or File
  • Creating System Backups on CD-ROM
  • Personal and Generic backup CDs
  • Hardware and Software Requirements
  • Using the mkcd Command
  • Creating a Root Volume Group Backup on CD/DVD-ROM
  • Creating a Generic Backup CD/DVD Using SMIT
  • Creating a User Volume Group Backup
  • Creating a User Volume Group Backup Using Web-based System Manager
  • Creating a User Volume Group Backup Using SMIT
  • Verifying a System Backup

    • Chapter 7. Installing System Backups

  • Cloning a System Backup
  • Cloning Your System
  • Installing a System Backup on the Source Machine
  • Where Do I Go Next?

    • Chapter 8. Customized BOS Installations

  • Introduction to Customized BOS Installations
  • Customizing and Using a bosinst.data File
  • Create and Use a Backup Tape
  • Create and Use a Client File
  • Create and Use a Supplementary Diskette

    • Chapter 9. Alternate Disk Installation

  • Alternate mksysb Disk Installation
  • Alternate Disk rootvg Cloning
  • Phased Alternate Disk Installation
  • Data Access Between the Original rootvg and the New Alternate Disk
  • Filesets to Install
  • Installing to an Alternate Disk using Web-based System Manager
  • Running Alternate Disk Installation Using SMIT
  • Examples

    • Chapter 10. Troubleshooting

  • Troubleshooting an Installation from a System Backup
  • Bootup Failure
  • Booting from the Product CD-ROM
  • Booting from the Product Tape
  • Problems with mksysb Image Configuration on System Backup Tapes
  • Restoring a File from the Second Image or Tape
  • Source and Target Differences
  • Suggestions for Reported Problems with mksysb Backup Installations
  • Troubleshooting a Migration Installation
  • Boot Logical Volume Not Large Enough
  • Not Enough Disk Space for Migration
  • Renaming Devices
  • Troubleshooting an Alternate Disk Installation
  • Other Problems
  • Troubleshooting After an Installation
  • Creating Bootable Tapes
  • Accessing a System That Does Not Boot
  • Prerequisites
  • Accessing the System
  • Troubleshooting a Full /usr File System
  • Viewing BOS Installation Logs
  • Viewing Logs with SMIT
  • Viewing Logs with the alog Command
  • Using the snap Problem Determination Tool
  • Disk Space Requirements
  • Output Directory
  • Execution Permissions
  • Cleanup
  • Options
  • To View the Usage Instructions
  • Recovery
  • Acting on System and Error Messages

    • Appendix A. Additional Software Product Packaging Concepts

  • Fileset Installation Packaging
  • Bundle Packaging

    • Appendix B. bosinst.data File Stanza Descriptions

  • control_flow Stanza
  • target_disk_data Stanza
  • locale Stanza
  • large_dumplv Stanza
  • dump Stanza

    • Appendix C. bosinst.data File Examples

  • mksysb Backup Restoration
  • Nonprompted Installation

    • Appendix D. Installing Kerberos Version 5

  • Configuring the Kerberos V5 KDC and kadmin Servers
  • Configuring the Kerberos V5 Clients
  • Error Messages and Recovery Actions
  • Files Created
  • Sample Runs

    • Appendix E. Notices

    Glossary

    Index

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