topic Re: swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall

trystan macdonald — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:33:09 GMT

I am trying to upgrade a standalone HP-UX 11.0 machine to HP-UX 11i with hostname "labtest1".

Firstly, following the procedures from the HP-UX 11i installation and update guide, I have mounted the CD under /cdrom, inserted the HP-UX 11i CD 1 and entered the following command:

swinstall -s /cdrom SW-DIST.SD-UPDATE \@ /var/adm/sw/update-ux.root 2> /dev/null

I now get an error message:

ERROR: could not contact host "labtest1". Make sure hostname is correct.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Trystan

Re: swinstall

harry d brown jr — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:37:47 GMT

You need to have swagentd running.

Before you begin, PLEASE make TWO make_tape_recovery tapes!!

BTW, you really aren't going to UPGRADE from 11.00 to 11i are you? It's really not recommended.

A cold install of 11i is really the safest thing to do.

live free or die
harry

Re: swinstall

trystan macdonald — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:52:37 GMT

I have /usr/sbin/swagentd -r running but I still get the same error as before:
could not contact host "labtest1". Make sure hostname is correct.

Re: swinstall

Mateja Bezjak — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:22:21 GMT

Hi Trystan,

What is the nslookup output? Make sure it contains also the domain name.

Regards,
Mateja

Re: swinstall

Trond Haugen — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:29:14 GMT

Also try a nslookup of the IPaddress that 'nslookup labtest1' returns.
You may also want to ry restarting swagentd (swagentd -r).

Regards,
Trond

Re: swinstall

trystan macdonald — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:40:29 GMT

have tried nslookup - nothing, however this machine is not on a network at the moment

Re: swinstall

Mateja Bezjak — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:48:06 GMT

Hi again,

This might be the problem. For SD to function properly, the machine has to be on the network. SD is built that way that it depends on DNS.

Regards,
Mateja

Re: swinstall

Trond Haugen — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:58:19 GMT

If not on a network you could edit /etc/hosts to have "labtest1" as an ailias to IPaddress 127.0.0.1.

Regards,
Trond

Re: swinstall

Martin Johnson — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:04:28 GMT

Put an entry for labtest1 into /etc/hosts and make sure /etc/nsswitch.conf is set up to use files.

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

HTH
Marty