Cold Install 11.00 Options

[Tracey]

I am getting conflicting stories from tech support, so I thought I would get a consenses here also.

I am doing a cold install of 11.00 on an N4000 server. After I boot from the installation CD, I am offered the following choices:

Config:
11.00 Default
11.00 for Commercial Servers
11.00 for Technical Computing

Environment:
64-bit CDE HP-UX Environment
64-bit Minimal HP-UX

This machine will be an Oracle DB server. Which options to choose?

[Vincenzo Restuccia · Accepted solution]

64-bit CDE HP-UX Environment
11.00 default

[Shannon Petry]

Well, you have a N class server, so would select
11.00 for Commercial Servers

The exception is if this is a compute server, requiring X, OpenGL, PEX, PHIGS. I have not seen too many N class boxes sporting a high end graphics card though.... : )

If you need X and CDE (which most do), then select
64-bit CDE HP-UX Environment

If you need No X systems, and will do everything from command line, then you can save overhead, and resources by selecting
64-bit Minimal HP-UX

Regards,
Shannon

[Ravi_8]

hi
since you are using the machine as oracle server 11.0(default) with CDE environment is the best suited

[Stefan Farrelly]

We use 11.0 default and 64bit CDE on all ours. All those other options only seek to bamboozle everyone:-)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tracey:

I use 'default' with 'CDE'. While I don't have X-environments, I don't feel that the overhead is substantial enough to warrent not loading it. Then, you always have the core modules if you want to use them later.

...JRF...