ignite from k370 to rp7400

[Donald Thaler_1]

Can we use an k370 ignite tape on an rp7400, both are 64 bit systems? If this does work what else are we looking at recreating(i.e crontab,device drivers etc.) on the rp7400?

Thanks

Don

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

This is going to be ALOT of work assuming it does work. My belief is that no it will not work.

There are many hardware differences and changes between the 2 systems. Least of your worries would be the changes in device names.

[Patrick Wallek]

Well, you could try, but I wouldn't be too surprised when it doesn't work.

There are just too many differences in hardware. CPU speed, PCI vs HP-PB/HSC, etc.

Just install the rp7400 from scratch and copy over everything that you need from the K370.

[Steven E. Protter]

The hardware is very different. It may be possible if what you really care about is software configuration to do this with golden images.

Take a golden image of the K box, and then boot the rp7400 off the K box on its internal NIC. You should be able to customize enough to get all software transferred correctly, including apps like Oracle.

SEP

[A. Clay Stephenson]

These are almost certainly too different although you can extract files from the Ignite tape. My rule for Ignite compatabilty is "If I have to ask then I don't trust it".

Some of the critical files include passwds (which might include the tcb database) , groups, hostnames, resolv.conf, crontab, services, inetd.conf entries, network settings, .... . You also need bdf outputs, fstab, printers, vgdisplay -v outputs for all non-vg00 volume groups. I would also get a kntune output for kernel settings. Unless you have installed custom device drivers (very rare these days) drivers should not be a problem.

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi Donald

1. Be sure you have a recent version of ignite on the source(k360) machine.
2. Make sure you installed all the Hardware Enablement Patches
4. Make sure you Quality Pack patches is up to date.
5. Interrupt the ignite on boot up, some tweaking will be required.

HTH
Gerhard