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Determining the Installation Method
If the software product that you plan to install contains subsystems that require a miniroot installation, you must shut down the target system and install them from the miniroot; you cannot install these products by a live installation (see "Software Installation Methods"). To determine whether the software that you plan to install requires a miniroot installation, read the product release notes. Release notes list all subsystems in the product that require miniroot installation.
A miniroot installation is also required under these conditions:
- when the target is being upgraded from a pre-6.2 version of IRIX to IRIX 6.2 or later
- when the target has software problems that prevent successful live installations
- when the target's system disk is new or empty
- when recovering from severe system crashes (system recovery)
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