OS install

[bassey essien_2]

I will be reinstalling OS 11x on two servers, series hp 9000/829 and 9000/897 from media. I have not done this before, oracle server and eastman imaging software sits on root which will be overwritten, i will like oracle to reside on a seperate volume group outside root. i will also like to extend the root filesystem. I need hands on or documentations,
could not find enough info from hp website.
thanks, bassey.

[Jason VanDerMark]

The actual installation of 11.X is like pie. All you need to do is to put the installation media into your cd/dvd drive and when the system boots up interupt the boot process(the screen will say press any key to interupt) then select boot from secondary which is normally your tape drive, but it will check the tape drive and if it finds nothing it will kick over to the cd/dvd. After that the installation program will kick in and it will start asking you questions such as hostname, ip address, subnet mask, default gateway, new root password, etc. Once this process completes, your server will come up with only a vg00 and 8 logical volumes under vg00 (lvol1-7 plus a swap). At this point you can setup a new logical volume manually or via sam(easier, as long as you understand what it is doing). I would suggest that you create a logical volume for oracle perhaps vgORA or vgORACLE, whatever suits your fancy. Then under oracle create a logical volume called lvolU001 which will be mounted at /oracle/u001 or /u001 you then need a few for data d001, d002, d003, and dba's usually like one called a001 for archives. It will be up to you to decide how much space to allocate to them. Then I would suggest that you create another volume group for your imaging app or what ever it was. Call it vgAPP or something like that. Then create a few lvols for the data. Once this is done you will need to mount all the volumes(can't remember if sam does it for you or not. I think it does) at any rate you will need to modify the /etc/fstab to add the lvols so they mount on boot up. From there you are moving along great. This reply is getting a bit large, so I will let someone else add to it or point out some documentation that covers things that I probably left out. Either way, good luck with you new installs.

Regards,
Jason V.

[Jason VanDerMark]

Re-reading my post I can see that I said logical volume in many places and I should have said volume group. Sorry for the confusion. I knew what I meant...LOL. :-)

Regards,
Jason V.