First time using an Ignite Server

[Andrew Pollard]

Hi,

After having lots of hardware problems with a DVD drive, I need to try and install 11.23 onto a Superdome partition from an Itanium server that I hope will become a temporary Ignite server. I have used "swcopy" to copy the contents of the DVD install media to a directory on the Itanium server.

So I guess now all I need to do is configure ignite on the Superdome to install 11.23 from the Itanium server, sounds easy :-)

Can anyone point me to a straight forward step by step instruction on how I might perform this configuration?

Thanks

Andrew

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

Here's the ignite admin. doc.

I believe you want chapter two:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/ch02.html

Here's the rest:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/index.html

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Share a DVD rom drive that is rock solid with NFS somewhere else on the network.

An swcopy of the Core OS from a shakey DVD drive is a recipe for disaster, or more accurately no disaster recovery.

Also remember that ignite clients can only boot on built in NIC's. I don't think there is an option for add in cards in a superdome cell, but you may run into roadblocks that require special effort to overcome.

SEP

[sysadm_1]

Download latest version of ignite and install it.
RUn /opt/ignite/bin/ignite from GUI
select server setup wizard.
Enter the details and finish

[Andrew Pollard]

Hi,

Thanks for all the suggestions. It looks like our OS DVD is what was causing our problems and we have decided to go with 11.11.

Thanks

Andrew