About This Book

How-To's for AIX Installation Tasks

How-To's for Base Operating System Installation Tasks

Operating System and Optional Software Installation

What's New in Base Operating System Installation and Software Installation?

Introduction to Base Operating System Installation

Installation Options

New and Complete Overwrite Installation / Preservation Installation

Migration Installation

Configuring the Operating System

Customized BOS Installations

The bosinst.data File

Optional Software Products and Service Updates

AIX Documentation and the Documentation Library Service

Creating and Installing System Backups

Alternate Disk Installation

Software Product Packaging Concepts

Troubleshooting Operating System and Optional Software Installation

Troubleshooting an Installation from a System Backup

Troubleshooting a Migration Installation

Troubleshooting an Alternate Disk Installation

Troubleshooting After an Installation

Accessing a System That Does Not Boot

Troubleshooting a Full /usr File System

Viewing BOS Installation Logs

Acting on System and Error Messages

Network Installation

What's New in Network Installation Management (NIM)?

Network Installation Management Introduction

NIM Task Roadmap

EZNIM

Basic NIM Operations and Configuration

Advanced NIM Installation Tasks

Advanced NIM Configuration Tasks

Additional Topics

Network Installation Management Concepts

Sample Files

Error and Warning Messages

Network Installation Management Troubleshooting

Appendixes

Appendix A. Network Boot

Appendix B. Notices

Glossary

Index