About This Manual

This manual describes how to install Version 5.1A of the Tru64^TM UNIX operating system on all supported systems. Topics include how to prepare your system for an installation, boot the system from the distribution media, and perform a Full or Update Installation.

Installation information is located in two manuals:

• This manual documents the Full Installation and Update Installation procedures and is designed to get most systems from zero to installed and operational quickly.

• The Installation Guide -- Advanced Topics documents advanced installation topics such as Installation Cloning, Configuration Cloning, invoking user supplied files to customize the installation process, and guidelines for planning disk space.

Section 1.7, Using This Manual, provides a navigational path to help you find the information that is relevant to the type of installation you want to perform.

Audience

The Installation Guide is intended for anyone who is installing or updating the operating system software or the Worldwide Language Support (WLS) software onto a single system.

New and Changed Features

The following changes have been made since the Version 5.1 release:

• Table 2-1 shows the successive update paths to reach Version 5.1A if your system is running a version of the operating system other than Version 5.0A or Version 5.1. Your system must be running Version 5.0A or Version 5.1 of the operating system in order to update to Version 5.1A.

• Section 9.3 lists the new values returned by the setld -i command, which describe the installation status of a sofware subset. The values are described in more detail in the setld(8) reference page.

• Appendix G includes recovery procedures for setld load and delete failures for single systems and clusters.

Previous versions of this manual are available on the World Wide Web at

http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/

See the New and Changed features section of those versions to learn the evolution of this manual.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

Related Documentation

The following documents may be useful references when you are installing the operating system and then are configuring the operating system for general use:

• The documentation for your hardware shows how to physically set up the processor and its additional devices, provides a list of supported console variables, and contains troubleshooting guidelines.

• The Release Notes, especially those sections that pertain to installations, may contain important undocumented information about firmware, software, or hardware that may affect your installation.

• The Installation Guide -- Advanced Topics manual contains information about advanced installation features, such as: using user-supplied files to further customize the installation process, Installation Cloning, Configuration Cloning, installing Worldwide Language Support (WLS) on a running system, and disk space planning.

• The Sharing Software on a Local Area Network manual contains information about Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Dataless Management Services (DMS). RIS lets you install software products over a network from a central server. DMS lets you set up an environment where the / and /usr file systems are exported from a central server onto a client system.

• The System Administration manual provides information about configuring, administering, and maintaining your system after it has been installed.

• The AdvFS Administration manual contains information about administering an Advanced File System (AdvFS).

• The Network Administration: Connections and Network Administration: Services manuals contain information about network configuration, administration, and troubleshooting.

• The Software License Management manual contains information about registering and loading software licenses.

• The Documentation Overview provides information on all of the manuals in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set.

The Tru64 UNIX documentation set is available on the World Wide Web at

http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/

Icons on Tru64 UNIX Printed Manuals

The printed version of the Tru64 UNIX documentation uses letter icons on the spines of the manuals to help specific audiences quickly find the manuals that meet their needs. (You can order the printed documentation from Compaq.) The following list describes this convention:

Some manuals in the documentation help meet the needs of several audiences. For example, the information in some system manuals is also used by programmers. Keep this in mind when searching for information on specific topics.

The Documentation Overview provides information on all of the manuals in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set.

Reader's Comments

Compaq welcomes any comments and suggestions you have on this and other Tru64 UNIX manuals.

You can send your comments in the following ways:

• Fax: 603-884-0120 Attn: UBPG Publications, ZKO3-3/Y32

• Internet electronic mail: readers_comment@zk3.dec.com

  A Reader's Comment form is located on your system in the following location:

  /usr/doc/readers_comment.txt

Please include the following information along with your comments:

• The full title of the manual and the order number. (The order number appears on the title page of printed and PDF versions of a manual.)

• The section numbers and page numbers of the information on which you are commenting.

• The version of Tru64 UNIX that you are using.

• If known, the type of processor that is running the Tru64 UNIX software.

The Tru64 UNIX Publications group cannot respond to system problems or technical support inquiries. Please address technical questions to your local system vendor or to the appropriate Compaq technical support office. Information provided with the software media explains how to send problem reports to Compaq.

Conventions

%
$

A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and POSIX shells.

#

A number sign represents the superuser prompt.

% cat

Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.

>>>

The console mode prompt is three right angle brackets.

file

Italic (slanted) type indicates variable values, placeholders, and function argument names.

cat(1)

A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.

[Ctrl/x]

This symbol indicates that you hold down the first named key while pressing the key or mouse button that follows the slash. In examples, this key combination is enclosed in a box (for example, [Ctrl/C] ).