DEC OSF1 3.0 Installation Guide 199408

This document is the Installation Guide for DEC OSF/1 Version 3.0 (Part Number: AA-PS2DD-TE), published in August 1994 by Digital Equipment Corporation.

It provides comprehensive procedures for installing the DEC OSF/1 operating system on all supported processors. The guide covers:

• Update Installations: Instructions for upgrading from DEC OSF/1 Version 2.0 (and subsequent releases) to Version 3.0, emphasizing the preservation of system customizations.
• Full Installations: Detailed basic and advanced installation procedures, applicable for systems predating Version 2.0 or for users requiring customized disk partitioning and software subset selection.
• Pre-installation Planning: Guidance on hardware requirements, verifying the software distribution kit, and extensive disk space planning using provided worksheets for file systems, swap space, and crash dumps.
• System Booting: Specific boot instructions for various DEC processor series (2000, 2100, 3000, 4000, 7000, 10000) from CD-ROM or network.
• System Configuration and Setup: Steps for initial system configuration, including entering system name, root password, time zone, building the kernel, and setting up services like networking, printing, security, and software licensing.
• Standalone Environment: An overview of a primitive environment used for initial installation phases, system management, file system recovery, and disk partition modifications for experienced users.
• Software Subsets: Descriptions of mandatory, optional, and additional software components, and instructions for installing them using the setld command.
• Troubleshooting and Reference: Information on error messages, disk partition layouts, and sample log files.

The guide is intended for anyone installing the DEC OSF/1 operating system, assuming a basic understanding of hardware, disk devices, file systems, and command-line operations.