Building 64-bit system (A500) from 32-bit Ignite tape (D230)

[Mark Landin]

I have an Ignite bootable tape (created with make_tape_recovery from Ignite version B.3.7.96) from a D230 system (32-bit 11i) that I want to use to build an A500 system (64-bit only).

Is there any way to use this 32-bit-kernel tape on a 64-bit machine? Is there some option I can use either while creating the recovery tape, or when doing an Advanced installation, to make this work?

[melvyn burnard]

no, you cannot do this, it needs to be a 64bit version of the OS

[A. Clay Stephenson]

These systems are far too different. After doing a cold install, you could extract files/data from your Ignite tape.

[Jeff Schussele]

Sorry - ain't gonna happen.
Ignite only works across "similar" systems.
You can get away with an L -> N scenario, but not a V-class -> SuperDome for example.

My $0.02,
Jeff

[Steven E. Protter]

Your only hope is to build an Ignite Golden Image on the D230.

That is less hardware dependent and may enable you to migrate os software and configuration.

SEP

[Cheryl Griffin]

Read the abstract here
http://www.interex.org/conference/hpworld2002/sessions/sn039/

[Bill Hassell]

Even if you were porting the D230 Ignite tape to an A400 32-bit system, it would barely function. While Ignite does a good job in restoring the kernel and the subsystems, it will only restore the drivers that were in the D230 kernel. The architecture (backplane addressing, I/O cards, etc) are all very different. And the VERY old version of Ignite/UX simply knows nothing about new hardware. The latest version of Ignite/UX must always be downloaded whenever you have a new computer, new disks or arrays and new tape drives.

[Mark Landin]

OK, I'm reading between the lines here and sensing that what I'm asking for can't be done. Just come out and say it, folks! :)

After posting this I realized I have access to an A500 that already has most of what I need, so I'll be using that as my recovery source.

I realize that the lastest version of Ingite won't help me in this case, but I'll download it anyway.