We are accumulating notes about doing cold OS installs onto fresh hardware. Of course, our notes are no substitute for (a) knowing what you're doing, or (b) reading the documentation :-)

Still, since Sidai-style sites will likely be aiming in the same direction, it is worth recording our experiences. Here are the documents we have now:

Before you re-install...

A laundry-list of things to save off an old machine before you splat a new OS onto its disk(s).

(Faintly equivalent: move all services [used by other machines] off of the machine; switch it off; if the other machines manage without it for (say) a week, then you can fairly safely splat over the victim's disk(s).)

HP-UX 11 installation.

The huge majority of it applies to HP-UX 10.20, too.

Solaris installation.

ToDo

Red Hat Linux installation.

ToDo

<other-OS> installation.

Give us the words; we'll put 'em here!

Disk configuration.

A common issue in doing an OS install is disk partitioning (e.g. ``How much space should I have for /usr?'').

Rather than give Correct in All Cases answers (ha!), we instead give a catalog of actual choices we have made in specific contexts.

We would welcome your ideas on ways to improve our choices; or specific information about disk-configuration choices you have made (i.e. to add to the catalog).

After OS installation....

There are likely to be a few immediately-post-OS-install steps that you apply to each host.

ARK booting.

How to get from ``OS just installed'' to ``ready to play in an ARK world''.