topic Re: Changing the boot disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing the boot disk

Eduardo Mambrilla Marti — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:50:07 GMT

I have an HP-UX 11.00 and I want to change my small boot disk. The new one is big, and I want to tansfer all the information including the operating system.
How can I do that?
Thaks!

Re: Changing the boot disk

Domenico_5 — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:49:32 GMT

hi edoardo

you can create a make_recovery tape, substitute your old disk with a new and reinstall ignite on this old.

You can do this or you want all steps?

Re: Changing the boot disk

Kellogg Unix Team — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:49:48 GMT

There are many ways and one of them is -

Make a tape-recovery of the boot disk (make_tape_recovery) and when recovering from it, change the boot disk, increase/modify the filesystem sizes, if you wish.

Rgds
...Manjeet

Re: Changing the boot disk

Domenico_5 — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:50:18 GMT

sorry this is correct the "old" at the end is a mistake!!!

hi edoardo

you can create a make_recovery tape, substitute your old disk with a new and reinstall ignite on this.

You can do this or you want all steps?

Re: Changing the boot disk

Jean-Louis Phelix — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:53:05 GMT

Hi,

The easiest way is to use a make_recovery (ignite/UX). Other solutions with Mirrors won't allow you to take benefit of the larger size of the new disk.

Regards.

Re: Changing the boot disk

Jean-Louis Phelix — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:59:40 GMT

make_recovery -A

or

make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00

Re: Changing the boot disk

Eduardo Mambrilla Marti — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:04:01 GMT

I don't know how to create a tape recovery.
Which command can I use?
Thanks!

Re: Changing the boot disk

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:26:22 GMT

You need to download the freely available Ignite/UX for make_tape_recovery BUT if I were you I would get all the junk (e.g. non directly OS related software) off the small disk and transfer that to your new disk. There is rally no need to have a large (and cluttered) boot disk. A small, clean boot disk with other VG's is a much cleaner system and boot disk recovery is much easier.

There is also very little need to have a big primary swap area. 256-512MB is more than sufficient and can be supplemented (if necessary) with additionalk swap areas on your non-boot disk.

Re: Changing the boot disk

Kellogg Unix Team — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:52:05 GMT

>I don't know how to create a tape recovery.
>Which command can I use?

From HP's site (software.hp.com) download a free product called Ignite-UX. Then -

man make_tape_recovery
and
man ignite (optionally)

will give you enough head-start to accomplish what you want.

HTH
...Manjeet