HP-UX

[Edgar Arroyo]

Not for nothing, but I went back to HP-UX :) Linux is way too unstable, I had to reinstall linux 3 times before deciding that HP-UX is the OS to go with HP Visualize machine. I am now doing the GOLDQPK11i, but what I didn't like is that it didn't let me select the volume sizes, the /opt is running out of space right from the getcko, I had to create sym links to the software I wanted and put them in /usr (or /var)

[Steven E. Protter]

You need to start over with the install and size /usr /var and /opt much higher than the default for the operating system.

Then you'll be okay.

SEP

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

i do not think that is a right statement. the installation of HP-UX does allow u to select the space u like to allocate for each boot logical volume, i.e. /var, /opt, etc.

that is provided, u have choosen the Advanced Option during installation, if not, u will get the default.

regards.

[Mel Burslan]

if you ran the install from media, the volume size selection screen is not visible on the screen that you firs see. You needed to drill down to the other tabs while installing.

For your comment on Linux on visualize, I do not think that debian (what I used to have on my B180) on risc platform is not ready for prime time yet. Especially the hardware detection. It is nowhere near intel platform. You can give it to not too many people working on the flavor as there is not much need for it. Mine took me a good part of the week to get X running, let alone any additional packages without problems. Oh well, it was at my previous employer. Now I have another b180 that I inherited and loaded 11.0 on it because of the fact that 11.i refuses to run more than 5 minutes without freezing on a machine with 64MB of memory (yeah, somebody cannibalized the box bfore I inherited it)

[Edgar Arroyo]

Yeah, linux worked great, I got the hang of Debian and the apt-get (a must) and I managed to install GNOME 1.4 on it and everything but mozilla worked great on it. I tried to fix mozilla and I ended up breaking the GNOME installation every single time. It's doomed. The HP-UX 11 drive I have I put it back on the B2000 and the linux I reinstalled 11i on it, for some reason the first 11i I tried to install went to the ground, so I mkfs the drive and used it on the 11 system as storage... :)

[Joseph Loo]

to add, i actually have to install RHAT AS 2.1 .... get this .... 12 times before managing to get it to work on a Proliant DL380G3. it was also my first time installing Linux Red Hat on a Proliant!!

regards.

[Edgar Arroyo]

100% error free install (11i) when I did it 2nd time. I guess I goofed the 1st time somehow.

I even installed GNOME 1.4, mozilla and plugins :)

[dirk dierickx]

There are indeed some problems with Linux on PA-Risc platforms, i would use this setup for anything production related.

However i would like to know why RHAS had to be reinstalled several times on a DL380, as all of our servers here running linux are DL380's and they are solid as a rock.

[Marcel Burggraeve]

Why bother making symlinks when one can increase the size of logical volumes after installing HP-UX ?

Reboot the system
Interrupt boot process
Bo primary
Interact with IPL
hpux -is
mount /usr
lvextend -L 2048 /dev/vg00/lvol6
extendfs /dev/vg00/rlvol6

2048 is the new size of the volume in megabytes.
lvol6 is just an example, choose the volume you want to increase.

ps.
If you want to increase /usr you;ll have to remember extendfs will only work on volumes which aren't mounted.