Destined to crash...

[Gabor Lengyel]

I've recently acquired an HP workstation with a heavily underpatched 11.00 on it. No backup tape. No program would install without first installing a bunch of patches of course. No problem, lets do backup! Hmm.. how to... ahh course, Ignite it is. Wait just a... it needs patches too. Computing... (do you really want to use this piece of engineering marvel?...nahh yeah course) -> install those patches for Ignite (they need reboot you know) -> kernel panics next round. Cool! Lets go shopping!

- Ralph

[David Burgess]

Is it an important box?

Try and boot the old kernel or reinstall the OS. It sounds like it's stuffed!

Dave.

[BFA6]

What about trying fbackup or maybe cpio just to get the backup done.

Hilary

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I have hp-ux 9.04 on one of my workstations and it works a charm! (Never figured out how to list installed software ;))

I recon the best thing to do is cold install hp-ux 11 (if you can get an external cdrom) or dd to a second internal disk.

You don't need to install so many patches for an ignite client for network recovery, pax and a few sd utils max, the box must be suffering from previous admin compression utils (rm for example)

Later,
Bill

[Frank Slootweg]

Bill,

Quick-and-dirty: "ls /etc/filesets" or "ls /system".

Official: rmfn(1M). It is the pre-10.X equivalent of swremove, but can also list things.