Bootable CD for installs

[David Ratliff]

Does anyone know how to create a bootable CD to do installs from. We have servers in several states and have a central Ignite server does not always work. Would like to have a bootable CD to send to on-site personnel to be able to do installs.

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
I believe that chapter 10 of the Ignite manual covers this "Creating your own install media" ... yes here it is, page 150.

Hope this helps,
Tom

[Tom Geudens · Accepted solution]

Hi again,
And you can find this manual at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B2355-90749.pdf

Regards,
Tom

[Helen French]

Hi David:

Check this document (TKB #KBRC00002082) for creating a bootable CD:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=9a25806c19642b68cc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000058668908

HTH,
Shiju

[Helen French]

Hi David:

This document (TKB #A5330082) describes the steps to make tape from install media:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=9a25806c19642b68cc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000038532326

HTH,
Shiju

[Ricardo Bassoi]

When you buy HP servers each one comes with bootable cd for basic installs
CD???s can be used with more confidence over tape. DAT tapes can be rendered dirty or worn and be unreadable if it is old. The CD is also bootable off a SCSI CD or a ATAPI CD and is easily transported.
I have not been able to use PC software to create a HP-UX bootable CD. Rather than
trying extensively to make it work and burning up CDR???s, I went used the following
method running from HP-UX.
To create a bootable CD for updating firmware for HP-UX workstations, you
will need the following:
1) A HPUX workstation running HP-UX 10.20.
2) A SE SCSI CDR drive capable of at least 2X CD write capabilities.
3) CDR media such as HP's C4423 media.
4) TAMS (Test and Measurement System) CD Writer software Rev 3.01 or greater
regular $650
TAMS can be reached at:
TAMS 6020-8000 CD WRITER Software.

http://www.tamsinc.com/6020SW.htm

Begin by attaching the CDR writer to a available id on the SE SCSI bus
and then booting HPUX up.
As it boots, HPUX will run insf and create the device files for the CDR
writer.
Log in as super user.
Install the software by mounting the software CD onto a mount point such
as SD_CDROM and running swinstall. Set the depot to local CD and
putting the depot path as /opt/CDwriter and install the software.
Get a copy of the correct firmware off the HP patch depot at
hp.external.hp.com. In this case, it is PF_CC2X0060.
unshar the patch bundle. In this case, move the firmware file,
CC2X0060.FRM to /opt/cdwriter/bin.
Place a piece of blank media into the CDR writer.
Type in the following command:
cdrecord -v -speed=2 -dev="channel #, SCSI id, 0" CC2X0060.FRM
The verbose message example for a CDR burner at channel 1, id 5,
subunit 0 will be as below:
cdrecord -v -speed=2 -dev=1,5,0 CC2X0060.FRM
Cdrecord release 1.6a9 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jrg Schilling
Cdrecord TAMS changes Copyright (C) 1998- A Neil
Fifo buffer size: 4 MBytes.
scsibus: 1 target: 5 lun: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Vendor_info : HP CD-Writer 6020 Revision : 1.07
Device seems to be: Philips CDD2600.
Using driver for Philips CDD-522 (philips_cdd522).
Driver flags :
Track 01: data 1 MB
Total size: 1 MB (00:10.01) = 751 sectors
Starting to write CD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 1 of 1 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 1533952/1533952 (749 sectors).
Writing time: 10.916s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 123.316s
cdrecord: fifo had 25 puts and 25 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
You should now have a bootable CD for firmware updates.

Regards,

Bassoi

[Sukant Naik]

Hi David,

As Tom has mentioned, you can pull down the Ignite manual from the web.

One more suggestion:
I create the bootable image on a Harddisk. Then I pull this Harddisk out of the Ignite Server and plug it onto a test server where I try the installation.

On the test server, I interrupt the boot process and then after issuing search, I boot through this disk. This way I ensure that my image creation is working fine and it installs what I want onto the test server. Then you can go ahead and burn the CD.

-Sukant