HP UX 11i Volume Management (LVM/VxVM) Software manual About the Veritas installer

16Installation overview About the Veritas installer

If rsh is configured, use the following command:

#./installer -rsh -precheck

If patches to the HP-UX operating system are required, the patches should be applied prior to installing the Veritas products. Patches may be required to resolve HP-UX kernel, product performance, or other issues. Patches may be required for Veritas, HP-UX, or Oracle software.

The system should be in a quiescent state before adding patches.

See the product Release Notes for last minute information on recommended patches.

You must obtain new licenses to use all of the features in the Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 software. Any Veritas licenses for the previous releases that are currently installed allow you to use only a limited subset of these features.

For remote installation, or installation on multiple systems, set up remsh or ssh.

About the Veritas installer

The installer also enables you to configure the product, verify preinstallation requirements, and view the product’s description.

If you obtained a standalone Veritas product from an electronic download site, the single-product download files do not contain the general product installer. Use the product installation script to install the product.

At most points during the installation you can type the following characters for different actions:

■Use b (back) to return to a previous section of the installation procedure. The back feature of the installation scripts is context-sensitive, so it returns to the beginning of a grouped section of questions.

■Use Control–cto stop and exit the program if an installation procedure hangs. After a short delay, the script exits.

■Use q to quit the installer.

■Use ? to display help information.

■Use the Enter button to accept a default response.

Additional options are available for the installer.