Installation of Veritas Storage Foundation products consists of the following tasks:

• Obtain a license key, if required.

• If the operating system is not at the required OS fusion level, upgrade the operating system to the latest release.

  The operating system is bundled with Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System. If the Veritas Volume Manager or Veritas File System is in use, follow the steps in the upgrade chapter to upgrade the Storage Foundation and the operating system.

• If patches for the operating system are required, install the patches before upgrading the product.

  See Required HP-UX patches.

• Mount the disk.

  See Mounting a software disc.

• Install the 5.0.1 Veritas Storage Foundation product.

  Start the installer and select 'I' for install, or run the appropriate installation script.

• Reboot the system.

  # /usr/sbin/shutdown -r now

• Configure the Veritas software.

  Start the installer and select 'C' for configure, or run the appropriate installation script with the -configure option.