How to make a bootable partition on a 1GB hard disk

[Sajith Mannadiar]

Hi,

We have a HP 400 series system with a 300MB root HDD running HPUX 9.0.

Now we want to upgrade this to HPUX 9.10 for Y2K compliance.

As we don't have enough space in the existing HDD we need to transfer the
entire root partition to a
1GB Hard disk and then do the upgrade.

As this is a cluster server for two other nodes and lot of custom
configurations are done on this,we don't want to risk a re-installation of OS
on this system.

Now, my question is, how to make the new 1GB hard disk bootable with 9.0 and
transfer the root partitition from the old 300MB hard disk.

Can anybody help us???

Thanks
Sajith

[Jesper Sivertsen_2]

Hi there

First off all connect the new disk to your system.

Make a bootable filesystem on the new disk with:

newfs -B "raw-device-file" "disk-type"

make sure the disk type is in /etc/disktab and chose one with the correct swap
space.

Check the man page of newfs for correct options, it is a long time ago i ran
9.x

Mount the new disk on a directory in your existing system.

Copy your system to the new disk with the command:

cd /
find . -hidden -xdev | cpio -pudvmx "mount point of new disk"

Now reboot your system manualy from the new disk, remember to correct the
boot-path in the boot-admin menu.

God luck
Jesper Sivertsen