If possible to Install drivers and firmware in maintenance mode?

[Carme Torca]

Hi,

I have to install the driver and firmware of one tarjet A6826A. It's an fibre pci-x target.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=331475&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=331473&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=7

I have to do it in mantenance mode because I have fibre's disk in the vg00. Can I install the driver and the firmware in maintenance mode?
When I have to put the files ... in the /tmp is it posible?

Thanks a lot of!
Carmen.

[Johnson Punniyalingam · Accepted solution]

>>>>I have to do it in mantenance mode because I have fibre's disk in the vg00. Can I install the driver and the firmware in maintenance mode?

Yes, You can

>>>>When I have to put the files ... in the /tmp is it posible?

Yes, its possible. you mount manually,

ISL> hpux -is
Interact IPL> Y

# mount /dev/vg00/lvol7 /usr
# mount /dev/vg00/lvol8 /tmp

[Torsten.]

consider to boot up to init 2, because you need network access.

[rariasn]

Hi,

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=984076

rgs,

[Torsten.]

The driver will be installed via swinstall, this is a client server process and needs network. The new driver will be active after a reboot. Regarding firmware: is this a RISC or Itanium server?
However, the firmware update will reset the device for a moment, this will be accepted by the OS.

[SoorajCleris]

Hi ,

SD-UX will not work with out netowrk...
and you can install the driver in runlevel 3.

Note :Please take an ignite backup.
Please read through the installation procedure , dependencies and instructions.

Regards,
Sooraj

[Torsten.]

>> and you can install the driver in runlevel 3.



runlevel 2 is enough, applications should be stopped.

[Chandrahasa s]

Installation of drives for fc you can do it in run level 3 also after installing driver you need to restart then driver will be configured properly.

Firmware can be updated in isl prompt when you need to show firmware path by cdrom.


Chandra