HPUX 11i cold install space requirement

[Swapnesh]

The install guide mentions 4GB root volume requirement, however our root volume contains only about 100MB. Does this mean we have to increase our root volume to 4GB for the install? or is this the total size required across all the volumes /, /opt, /usr, /var, /home etc? Will the cold install keep the current LVM structure for these?

[Steven E. Protter]

If you do a cold install, you get to choose what disks will be part of the root volume group vg00. It does take about 4 GB of space to do the install.

Any disks you choose as part of the install will have all contents and structures desotryed. A cold install does not preserve exisitng structures.

It sounds like you are talking about upgrade or update/ux. Most sysadmins recommend against that.

SEP

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

It is the total of all volumes that are in the /dev/vg00 volume group. In your case, /, /stand, /opt, /usr, /var, and /home

These can easily be identified from the first column under "filesystem"

[Michael Tully]

You can pick the filesystem sizes during a cold install using the advanced installation selection (highly recommended). You could use an ignite copy (clone) from another server of the same type if you wished to.