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

Network Installation

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

Network Installation Management Introduction

NIM Task Roadmap

EZNIM

Basic NIM Operations and Configuration

Configuring the NIM Master and Creating Basic Installation Resources

Adding a Standalone NIM Client to the NIM Environment

Using Installation Images to Install the Base Operating System (BOS) on a NIM Client

Using a mksysb Image to Install the Base Operating System (BOS) on a NIM Client (mksysb Install)

Performing a Nonprompted BOS Installation

Installing to Clients on ATM Networks

Customizing NIM Clients and SPOT Resources

Configuring the NIM Master and Creating Resources to Support Diskless and Dataless Clients Only

Adding a Diskless or Dataless Client to the NIM Environment

Initializing and Booting a Diskless or Dataless Machine

Uninitializing Diskless and Dataless Machines

Installing to an Alternate Disk on a NIM Client (cloning or mksysb)

Network Installation Management Commands Reference

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