Cold Install HP-UX 11.0

[Mike Fisher_3]

Not able to search these forums recently so...

Could a kind soul please post a link to an interesting recent thread?

The one about upgrading from 10.20 by cold installing HP-UX 11.0 [advantages of that method]

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike:

The primary advantage to a cold-install of 11.x in lieu of an upgrade from 10.20, is the virtual guarantee that it will work!

The collection experience of many folks here is that a 10.20-to-11.x *upgrade* has a high probability of failure.

A cold-installation allows you to specify new, sound filesystem sizes especially for '/', '/usr' and '/var' which are invariably too small.

A cold-installation obviates the need to dispose of old patches and provides a clean, sound IPD (Installed Products Database).

Regards!

...JRF...

[Marco Santerre]

There seems to be many of them, but here is one of them

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe6053d853cd9d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[S.K. Chan]

This should be useful to you .. check out JRF and Bill Hassell input.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x8f7e93e260b0d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

[Cheryl Griffin]

Do you mean:
http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/STK/howtosystems.html#choice

[Stanimir]

Hi!
The experts recommended to do Cold Install
to avoid many troubles /using Ignite/. Nevertheless the upgrade is also possible.
I have attached you a little doc-guide about
our upgrade. We try like test to do this on single disk - by creating first
boot/10.20/, then upgrade to 11.0. It is
not official doc, just an experience.

Regards.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Go to http://docs.hp.com/ and search "cold install"

A lot of specific cases are exposed in this search link:
http://europe-support.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/sid=8cf6df7403c31a886d?todo=search&searchcategory=ALL&rn=25&presort=rank&searchtext=cold+installing&searchcriteria=allwords&searchtype=SEARCH_TECH_DOCS&x=63&y=13


Rgds.

[Helen French]

This is another useful document TKB #KBRC00008918:

http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062909674

[Mike Fisher_3]

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