Pre-Installation Tasks; Check Minimal Hardware Requirements - Compaq 386746-001 - ProLiant - 1600 Integration Notes

Migrating from SCO OpenServer™ 5.0.5 to UnixWare® 7.1 Using Compaq SmartStart v4.23
hardware technologies (ISDN and LDAP and PPP protocols) that are building the backbone
of business-critical networks
The Webtop that instantly web-enables existing applications; users and administrators no
longer have to learn how to access remote systems, run emulators, or launch access
applications on the server
Advanced Filesystem Management that centralizes tape backups and restores with the
ARCserve
Year 2000 ready, EURO support, and UNIX95 compliant.
For more information on UnixWare 7.1 features, visit the SCO website at
http://www.sco.com/unixware.

Pre-installation Tasks

To ensure a smooth transition from your SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 operating system to UnixWare
7.1, you need to prepare a comprehensive migration plan. This will avoid confusion and
frustration, insufficient hardware capabilities, data loss, and installation delays. At a minimum, a
migration plan should include these pre-installation tasks:

? Check minimal hardware requirements.

? Check minimal software requirements.
? Obtain your UnixWare 7.1 license.
? Check for the latest drivers and utilities.
? Create EFS diskettes.
? Check for the latest OS patches and supplements.
? Backup your current system.
? ? ? ? Check Minimal Hardware Requirements
Confirm that your hardware supports this upgrade. Table 1 lists the basic system requirements
and the SCO-preferred requirements for UnixWare 7.1.
Table 1. UnixWare 7.1 minimal and preferred requirements
A basic rule of thumb for RAM is a minimum of 32 MB for a graphical interface with an
additional 4 MB for each concurrent user. For our migration scenario, we have five users so our
minimum RAM requirement would be 52 MB (5 users x 4 MB) + 32 MB).
Be sure to also plan for enough swap space. Look at Table 2 for the SCO-recommended swap
space.
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OpenLite product from Cheyenne; also offers concatenation and disk spanning
Minimal Requirement
32 MB of memory
1-GB hard drive
Graphics-800 X 600 VGA
SCO-preferred Requirement
64 MB of memory
4-GB hard drive
Graphics-800 X 600 VGA
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