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Installation Guide and Reference

Contents

About This Book

Who Should Use This Book

Viewing Readme Files

Case-Sensitivity in AIX

Related Publications

How-To's for AIX Installation Tasks

How-To's for Base Operating System Installation Tasks

Perform a New and Complete Overwrite Base Operating System Installation from CD

Perform a Migration Base Operating System Installation from CD

Perform a Non-Prompted New and Complete Overwrite Base Operating System Installation from CD

Create and Install a Software Bundle

Add Open Source Applications to Your AIX System

Clone a rootvg Using Alternate Disk Installation

Configure NIM Using EZNIM

Install a Client Using NIM

Create a System Backup to Tape

Clone a System Using a System Backup Tape

Clean Up a Failed Software Installation

Operating System and Optional Software Installation

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

Software Maintenance and Utilities

Software Service Management

Alternate Disk Migration Installation

Universal Disk Format Support for DVD-RAM

Installation Commands

Introduction to Base Operating System Installation

Electronic License Agreements

Installation Options

New and Complete Overwrite Installation / Preservation Installation

Step 1. Complete the Prerequisites

Step 2. Prepare Your System for Installation

Step 3. Set Up an ASCII Terminal

Step 4. Boot from Your Installation Media

Step 5. Verifying or Changing the Installation Settings

Step 6. Finish the BOS Installation

Related Information

Migration Installation

Binary Compatibility Between Earlier Versions and AIX 5.2

Migrating to AIX 5.2

Related Information

Configuring the Operating System

Configuration Assistant

Installation Assistant

Related Information

Customized BOS Installations

Introduction to Customized BOS Installations

Customizing and Using a bosinst.data File

Related Information

The bosinst.data File

bosinst.data File Stanza Descriptions

bosinst.data File Example

Optional Software Products and Service Updates

Optionally Installed Software

Software Product Identification

Software Licensing

Installing Optional Software Products and Service Updates

Maintaining Optional Software Products and Service Updates

Cleaning Up Optional Software Products and Service Updates

Software Service Management

InstallShield Multi-Platform Packaged Installations

Related Information

AIX Documentation and the Documentation Library Service

Information Center

Using the Documentation Library Service

Installing the Online Documentation

Related Information

Related Information

Creating and Installing System Backups

Creating System Backups

Installing System Backups

Alternate Disk Installation

Alternate mksysb Disk Installation

Alternate Disk rootvg Cloning

Alternate Disk Migration 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

Software Product Packaging Concepts

Fileset Installation Packaging

Package Formats

Bundle Packaging

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)?

Working with EZNIM

Creating Resources Simultaneously

LPP Source Enhancements

Resource Groups

Alternate Disk Migration Installation

Network Installation Management Introduction

NIM Task Roadmap

EZNIM Master Operations

EZNIM Client Operations

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

Controlling the Master or Client

Resetting Machines

Using Client Machines as Resource Servers

Defining a Machine Group

Adding New Members to Machine Groups

Removing Members from Machine Groups

Including and Excluding a Group Member from Operations on the Group

Using Resource Groups to Allocate Related Resources to NIM Machines

Managing Software on Standalone Clients and SPOT Resources

Rebuilding Network Boot Images for a SPOT

Maintaining Software in an lpp_source

Viewing Installation, Configuration, and Boot Logs

Verifying Installation with the lppchk Operation

Using NIM to Install Clients Configured with Kerberos Authentication

Concurrency Control

Alternate Disk Migration Installation

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

NIM Master Management Tasks

NIM Name Resolution

Booting a FDDI Interface Over a Router

Default Paging Space During BOS Installation Through NIM

Migrating Diskless and Dataless Clients and NIM SPOTS

Defining the NIM Environment Using the nimdef Command

Name Requirements for NIM Object Definitions

Interacting with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Creating File Resources in the root Directory

Restricting NIM Client Resource Allocation

Preventing Machines from Adding Themselves as Clients

Disabling Client CPU ID Validation

Exporting NIM Resources Globally

Creating Network Boot Images to Support Only the Defined Clients and Networks

Updating a Spot With New Device Support for a New Level of AIX

Tuning Client Request Processing

Network Installation Management Concepts

script Resource File

Definition File for the nimdef Command

Error and Warning Messages

Network Installation Management Troubleshooting

Debugging a Network Boot Problem

Producing Debug Output for NIM BOS Installations

Port Conflicts with NIM and Other Applications

Appendix A. Network Boot

Booting a Machine Over the Network

Creating IPL ROM Emulation Media

Appendix B. Notices

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