Updating Sd-Ux Before Installing/Updating Software - HP 9000 Manual

Updating an Existing Operating System and Software

Updating SD-UX Before Installing/Updating Software

Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software
Before you can update to, for example, 10.20, you must extract the new
version of SD-UX from the 10.20 tape, CD or software depot from which
you plan to update your system.
CAUTION Do not attempt to use your present version of swinstall to update the
system to a newer version. The update will fail.
Procedure To update SD-UX, you must first load the swgettools utility onto your
system, and then use swgettools to get the new version of SD-UX.
The swgettools command needs a temporary directory with at least 2
MB of free space. By default, swgettools will use the /var/tmp
directory. If there is not enough space in the temporary directory
swgettools will fail.
You can tell swgettools to use a different temporary directory by
means of the -t dir_path command-line option. You must do this if you
do not have 2 MB free in /var/tmp. Use bdf /var/tmp to determine
this.
Loading swgettools The swgettools utility is shipped in the
catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles directory. Depending on whether the
10.x software is on CD, tape or a remote system in a software depot, use
cp, tar, or rcp, respectively, to load swgettools onto your system. Skip
to the section "SW-DIST Installation" below for more examples and other
options.
For example, to load swgettools from a local CD-ROM mounted at
/SD_CDROM into /var/tmp, enter the following:
cp /SD_CDROM/catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp
Getting the New SD-UX Now use swgettools to update SD-UX. For example:
Tools
/var/tmp/swgettools -s /SD_CDROM
The expression -s /SD_CDROM indicates a CD-ROM drive mounted at
/SD_CDROM.
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