creating an Ignite tape for a 10.20 system

[Mark Burgman]

Hello all -
I need to build an Ignite tape for an HP b2600 workstation running 10.20. I have installed Ignite on the main server, and have successfully rebuilt another machine from the ignite server over the network, but there is no documentaion for building the ignite tape. Does anyone have a document or link that covers this? Thanks in advance.
Mark

[Steven E. Protter]

Two possible commands.

make_recovery BAD! Obsolete(I think)

make_tape_recovery Better! if it exists for 10.20.

Just in case make_tape_recovery did exist in the 10.20 world, I'm attaching my script. It might work.

SEP

[Michael Tully]

You can ge the Ignite admin doc for 10.x from here:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90772/B2355-90772.html

The same command convention that is use on 11 and 11i also works on 10.20.

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

To get the latest version, which still supports 10.20 go here:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

[Jeff_Traigle]

I think 10.20 only had make_recovery. (At least that's all I had on the 10.20 systems at the previous job... HP might have added make_tape_recovery on the last versions for that OS revision, however.)

If you wanted recovery media, that will work and info on how to use it can be found in the man page.

If you were wanting to create a build tape that duplicates what you're server is doing for you, you can find all of the info you need in the Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 10.X available at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/10.x/index.html.

[Bernhard Mueller]

Mark,

I guess your issue is that you do not have a tape you could attach to the b2600.

Then you need to create two files:
a lif image using
make_medialif
and a system image using
make_sys_image
put those two files onto a machine with a tape
and dd lif_file with obs=2k onto the tape
(no-rewind!!) then dd sys_image_file onto the tape with obs=10k

This is the procedure. For the details refer to the man pages to pick the options you need.

Regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard Mueller]

Mark,

just another hint:

you can use
control_cfg and system_cfg files
from a previous make_net_recovery to feed to make_medialif

Regards,
Bernhard