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Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

aneez — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:31:41 GMT

hi all,

i want to create a boot tape ( ultrium 1) from my new HPUX 11i DVD. because i dont have CD drive in my machines. i dont want my current machine image. i want a fresh boot image of the DVD.
what will be the best way to do this?

Thanks

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:51:33 GMT

Shalom,

Few options.

1) You can make a DVD drive on one of your systems an NFS share and try the install from there.
2) You can do a clean install on a system and then use Ignite make_tape_recovery to make your tape.

I will post back if I think of more.

SEP

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

Deepak Kr — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:09:53 GMT

Another way is if you have same type of server which is having hp-ux 11i then you can create a bootable tape using make_tape_recovery.

As already given NFS is the next choice.

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

aneez — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:53:19 GMT

HI

i will tell you the scenario i have three systems and one has the cd drive and the other two dont have. with the cd drive machine is the productin and so if i want to do the NFS install how can i boot from that CD.
All three machines are 11.0 i need to do a fresh install (11iV1) on the two machines for MCSG cluster

Thanks

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

Torsten. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:14:37 GMT

Consider this:

Setup the server with the DVD-ROM as an ignite server, copy the installer DVD to the ignite depot (via ignite UI), copy the latest patch bundles to the same depot and boot + install the clients from the installer depot.

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:50:30 GMT

Shalom,

Torstens's advice will probably work.

If you really want a bootable tape, you will have to install a system somewhere. Perhaps if you are short of equipment you can get some time in a nearby HP Performance Center.

But Ignite lets you create install points without the benefit of a bootable tape, and you can do network boots off your Ignite server.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1186650

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-3336/ch03s05.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/ch07s03.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-3336/apas03.html

I like the last link best, hence I stopped looking at them.

Any depot based software, including the Core OS can be presented and installed from an Ignite server.

SEP

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

aneez — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:48:21 GMT

Thanks

let me try this tomorrow. is it possible to do nfs mount the cd drive on one of other machine and create the same ?

Re: Making boot tape from my new HPUX 11i DVD

Torsten. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:55:50 GMT

You can't boot from the NFS mounted cd.
Consider to do as advised earlier.