HP 4062UX - Installing HP-UX and Other Application Software; Required Swap Size and Memory for Series 300 Computers; Required Swap Size and Memory for Series 700 Computers

Installing HP-UX and Other Application Software
To install or update HP-UX, refer to the Instal ling and Updating HP-UX .
To congure your HP-UX system into a diskless cluster environment and to add a diskless
cluster node, use the SAM(1M) command. Note that you must go into single user mo de of
your HP-UX system to change your kernel to the diskless cluster environment. For details, see
Managing Clusters of HP 9000 Computers manual.
Note
If the swap space size is not large enough for the recommended environment
(see Table 5-1 or Table 5-2), mo dify the kernel conguration of the HP-UX
system as describ ed in \Reconguring the HP-UX Kernel" of the HP-UX
System Administration Tasks manual.
Table 5-1.
Required Swap Size and Memory for Series 300 Computers (Runtime
Environment)
Recommended Environment Minimum
Disk Size
Swap Size
1
(1 blo ck = 512 bytes)
Memory
2
Standalone Environment 200 MB 20 MB (40960 Blo cks) 8 megabytes
Diskless Cnode Environment | 20 MB (40960 Blo cks)/cnode 8 megabytes
1 Hewlett-Packard recommends to keep more than 30 MB (61440 blo cks) of swap space for X11
Windows or HP Visual User Environment (VUE).
2 Hewlett-Packard recommends to install at least 16 megabytes of memory for the X11 Windows
environment.
Table 5-2.
Required Swap Size and Memory for Series 700 Computers (Runtime
Environment)
Recommended Environment Minimum
Disk Size
Swap Size
(1 blo ck = 512 bytes)
Memory
Standalone Environment 400 MB 60 MB (122880 Blocks) 32 megabytes
Diskless Cnode Environment | 60 MB (122880 Blo cks)/cnode 32 megabytes
After loading the HP-UX lesets from the master tap e, Hewlett-P
ackard recommends to
customize /.profile and /etc/ttytype properly for your console:
/.profile le
To suppress the displaytype query when you log in as a ro ot user, mo dify the /.prole le
as follows:
5-4 Software Installation