How to boot a C360

[Ruediger Steudte]

I want to install a golden image (HP-UX11.00) on a HP-C360. There is no OS installed on the workstation at the moment. How do I have to boot the C360 so that the ignite server will see the client?
Is it possible to do this by using an ignite server running on HP-UX10.20

Best regards

Ruediger

[Rainer Lindenmayer]

boot your C360 at single-user mode, edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf,
ip-adress ..., etc.
Then boot your C360 from ignite server, "boot lan.ip-adress install".
I think its no problem to do this by using an ignite server on HPUX 10.20

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

Be sure that your ignite server has the install kernel for 11.00 (fileset Ignite-UX-11-00) installed and it is bootable (add some temp. ip addresses in /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab).
The server and the client must be in the same broadcast domain.

At the boot_admin menu on the C360 you can now type "sea lan install". it should list all your ignite servers and/or boothelper in you broadcast domain. Then you can boot by entering "bo pX install". pX is a shortcut to the boot path. it is listed in the search output.

Heiner

[Bruce Laughlin]

Hello Ruediger,

Looking at the IUX release notes, I would NOT expect this to work. Here's an excerpt:

1.1 Release Numbering Scheme
=============================

The B.* releases of Ignite-UX are based on the 11.11 version of HP-UX.
The A.* releases are based on 10.20. The Ignite-UX code base is the same
for the two releases so the features will be similar. The big difference
is that the B.* releases are capable of installing the 11.11, 11.00, and
10.20 releases of HP-UX, where as A.* Ignite-UX can install 10.20, 10.10,
and 10.01.

So, for this to work, you'd have to be able to install the B version onto the IUX server, which is running 10.20. The only way that it is supported to put any part of the B release on a 10.20 system is if you're doing so in order to enable it to be backed up by an 11.X server (i.e. make_net_recovery).

If it were me, I'd still try it, but wouldn't be too surprised if it didn't work.

Good luck,
Bruce Laughlin
HPUX GSE

[John Bolene]

Nope, for an 11 install, you must have an 11 ignite server.

The ignite server must also be on the same subnet, all machines on the same gateway, or you need an ignite gateway helper machine to get past the router.

I would be real surprised if you were able to get that 11 ignite image using a 10.20 ignite server to start with.