Preparing to Create Virtual Partitions

After having loaded vPars software, we can create partitions. Chapter 1 of the vPars book covers loading HP-UX 11i and vPars software in detail. At the time of this writing, vPars software comes on a separate CD-ROM. Now we're ready to create Virtual Partitions. After we create Virtual Partitions in this chapter, we have to boot the partitions we've created. Although we will boot the partitions in this chapter, the details of booting Virtual Partitions, and HP 9000 booting in general, are covered in detail in Chapter 3 of the vPars book. Chapter 1 of this book covers booting HP-UX in general.

With both HP-UX 11i and the Virtual Partitions software on our disk, we can begin the process of creating partitions. ...

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