Chapter II Installation of the AIX operating system

1. Start installing the operating system immediately using the default settings

2. Change the installation settings and install

3. System Recovery in maintenance mode

0, directly use the above settings to install

1, change the system settings (overwrite installation, retention installation, migration installation)

2. Select Environment parameters

3, including selection of installation content, Trust Computing Foundation (TCB), desktop environment, 64-bit kernel and JFS2 selection

Display after selection 1--

1. New Overlay Installation

1) When the machine is new and no BOS is available, select this

2) The operating system is installed on the machine, but for some reason the system is compromised and needs to be overwritten with the original operating system

3) When you need to reassign the hard disk, because ROOTVG also occupy the hard disk, so need to reinstall the operating system, ROOTVG will be overwritten, you need to overwrite the installation

2. Keep the installation

This installation is used when an older version of the operating system is installed and needs to be updated to a new version, but also to retain user data on the ROOTVG

The default is to delete/(root),/usr,/var,/tmp the contents of these file systems, while retaining the page and dump two devices, also keep home/home and user-created file system

During installation, the file system listed on the file /etc/preserve.list is copied and retained, and by default only includes/etc/filesystems,/etc/swapspaces,/etc/ Resolv.conf is waiting for three files.

The modified/etc/preserve.list is saved to the floppy disk by the following command

#cd/etc

#ls./preserve.list | Backup-iqv

When the system is installed, the default search/etc/preserve.list file is in the following order: floppy disk----The/etc/preserve.list file on the installation media on the machine where the system is installed----

3. Migration Installation

In order to preserve the contents of the root volume group that already exists, and to upgrade Aix 3.2/4.2/4.3 to 5L, it is possible to migrate the installation in such a way that, in addition to not preserving the TMP file system, all other file systems, including root volume groups, logical volumes and system configuration files, are retained

To manually start the command Setup Assistant command:

#install_assist

1. Set time and date

2. Set Root password

3. Change or confirm the device used to install other software (CDROM or tape drive or local/remote etc.)

4, management system storage space and page space

5. Configure network communication

6, change the basic language environment or new add other language environment

7. Create user

8. Configure the printer

9. Import any existing volume group

10. Install additional software and applications

11. Backup System

12. Exit the "Installation Assistant program" and log in to the system

naming rules for maintenance packs (ML): vrmf--

V: Operating system Version No.

R: Release version number release

M: Fixed version number modification

F: Revision number fix

Recommended Maintenance Package naming rules: vrmf-rm--

V: Operating system Version No.

R: Release version number release

M: Fixed version number modification

F: Revision number fix

RM: Recommended Maintenance Package recommended maintenance

Chapter II Installation of the AIX operating system