Install HP UX 11i

[Brian butler]

ok im going through the install and it tell me that there is no more disk space availible in not so many words, and i know there is not much disk space i do not know how to format the disk before going through the installation of hp ux, i am a little new to the game just trying to learn it as i go along could sombody tell me how to erase whatever is already on the disk...

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

If your doing a fresh installation, the system
will give a warning before overwriting any disk
that was previously used. So I can help more,
what model machine are you using and what size
are the disks? Does the machine currently have a system on any other disks that you wish to keep?

[Brian butler]

I do not wish to keep any of the data that is on the disk, the disk is 2Gb and it currently has HP UX 11i on it i am just wiping out the machine for practice.. visualize workstation B132L+

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

I would use the advanced installation option
from the first screen (see p44/45 of the install guide, so that you can define the amount of disk space to be used for each logical volume. By default the install requires about 4Gb of disk. Here is a link to the manual that I'm using.

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5185-6511/5185-6511.html

[Brian butler]

Yes i see these install instructions and it says that there is a min of 4Gb partition for root but this system currently has 11i on it how is that posible, i purchased the system with already installed, and i purchased the media seperate so that i could learn a little more, about it and now it looks like i will be purchaseing a new hard disk to go with it... thanks