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

Advanced NIM Installation Tasks

Advanced NIM Configuration Tasks

Removing Machines from the NIM Environment

Creating Additional Interface Attributes

Defining /usr versus non-/usr SPOTs

Re-Creating SPOT Resources from Existing Directories

Defining an lpp_source on CD-ROM versus Disk

Establishing a Default NIM Route Between Networks

Establishing a Static NIM Route Between Networks

Recovering the /etc/niminfo File

Backing Up the NIM Database

Restoring the NIM Database and Activating the NIM Master

Unconfiguring the NIM Master

Booting Diagnostics

Booting in Maintenance Mode

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