topic Re: swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall

Michael Elleby III_1 — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:26:39 GMT

After I've mounted the CD and started swinstall, instead of prompt me for the depot path, it give me a Select Target path, and when I enter /cdrom, I get the message:

"Could not contact host myserver. Make sure the hostname is correct."

I just recently renamed host and rebooted... Can't remember the solution for this problem, as I have run into it before..

Any suggestions?

Thanx.

Mike Elleby

Re: swinstall

steven Burgess_2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 23:33:32 GMT

Have you tried set_parms_hostname?

Re: swinstall

Michael Elleby III_1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:06:25 GMT

Steven-

The set_parms and reboot was what I did before the swinstall...

Thanx for the suggestion though..

Mike-

Re: swinstall

Michael Elleby III_1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:44:43 GMT

Steven (and others who read my initial post)-

I figured it out. Apparently swinstall had a problem with NIS running on the server. After I stopped daemons from running, swinstall comes up fine..

I'll restart NIS after I finish installing software...

Mike Elleby

Re: swinstall

Patrick Wallek — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:55:35 GMT

Do you have an NIS map for hostnames? Did you change the name of your system in that map?

Also have a look at your /etc/nsswitch.conf file and see what order it looks for hostnames. I would almost bet that it was looking in NIS first and getting confused. If so, you might want to consider having it look in files first the NIS or DNS.

Re: swinstall

Michael Elleby III_1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:40:43 GMT

Patrick-

Yep, something was awry in the NIS maps, and had to change nsswitch.conf to point to files first to correct the problem.

Mike Elleby

Re: swinstall

Peter Kloetgen — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:59:04 GMT

Hi Michael,

just a remark...

did you allready actualise NIS? It is possible that other services are using NIS as well and they would also be confused with two different host names in NIS and on your host-computer.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter