Overview - HP 9000 Manual

Updating an Existing Operating System and Software
Updating a System

Overview.

Updating your system from the existing HP-UX 10.0x, to another
version of HP-UX involves using swinstall and other SD-UX tools with
a standard source, such as a network server, tape, or CD-ROM, to install
the appropriate bundles, products, or filesets.
Upgrading means using a suite of tools (version 9.U3 of the Upgrade
tools) to update your system from HP-UX 9.0x to 10.0x. For upgrading
your system, refer to the manual Upgrading from HP-UX 9.x to 10.x.
• If you plan to update from HP-UX 10.0 to 10.x, you will have to
• It is highly recommended that you do a system backup before starting
• Before upgrading to HP-UX 10.30, you will need to remove
• If you are updating from HP-UX 10.20 or earlier, you will have to first
Executing swinstall to update from 10.0, 10.01, or 10.10 will not
CAUTION
succeed unless you first obtain and execute the swgettools command
found on the new media. This will update the SD-UX commands. Failure
to update SD-UX from the old version will result in error messages and
failure of the update process.
The instructions for using swgettools are in "Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software", in this chapter.
• If you already have the new HP-UX on your root disk, via Instant
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update your system first to HP-UX 10.01 or 10.10.
to do an update.
SwitchOver/UX from your system, if it is present. You can use
/usr/sbin/swremove to remove the entire product, by typing the
following:
/usr/sbin/swremove 92668A
The filesets for SwitchOver are as follows:
SWITCHOVER-KRN
SWITCHOVER-RUN
SWTC-ENG-A-MAN
SWTC-JPN-E-MAN
SWTC-JPN-S-MAN
update SD-UX (the set of tools that includes swinstall), using
swgettools, before you can run swinstall.
Ignition or an installation, go to "Updating HP-UX Software", in this
chapter.
Chapter 2