HP-UX 11i v1 TCOE install media wanted, and question about HPPA executable on disk

[brouhaha]

I would like to buy a set of HP-UX 11i v1 TCOE install media. I have a brand-new (yet 17-year-old) HP Worstation C8000. It was provided with a certificate providing a license to copy and use TCOE on the machine. I am told that HP no longer provides it. If anyone has a set of 11i v1 TCOE install media, from December 2003 through December 2006, which is superfluous to their requirements, I'd like to purchase it. This is to run PA-RISC development tools for a personal project involving interfacing to anothe PA-RISC HP-UX machine embedded in an HP instrument. It's a personal project, so I don't have a budget to pay big prices like resellers might offer.

Given that I have a license to copy and use, I would alternatively be satisfied with borrowing a set of such media then returning it, or getting ISO images.

I'd prever later install media rather than earlier, but I don't think I can be picky.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help out, or offer advice.

The C8000 I have came with two 73G SCSI drive factory-installed, and I was disappointed that they do not appear to contain any usable software. They do not contain LIF filesystem, or any identifiable filesystem, thus the firmware will not boot them. However, what they do have is an HPPA ELF exectuable stored starting in block 0. There's no obviosu identication of the program. Was this normal for HPPA machines? Anyone know what the program is, or how to execute it?

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] or getting ISO images.

   Ebay?  Web search?

   Some people possessing such data might be reluctant to discuss
distributing them on a forum run by the copyright owner.  Providing an
e-mail address might help.

> [...] They do not contain LIF filesystem, or any identifiable
> filesystem, [...]

   A claim that broad means little without some clues as to what
"identifiable filesystem" means to you.

> [...] Anyone know what the program is, or how to execute it?

   Not I.

[brouhaha]

@Steven Schweda wrote:

> [...] or getting ISO images.

   Ebay?  Web search?\

@Steven Schweda I already tried ebay and web search, or I wouldn't have bothered asking here. There are plenty of places on the interent where 11i v1 MCOE can be found, but AFAICT none for TCOE.

   Some people possessing such data might be reluctant to discuss
distributing them on a forum run by the copyright owner.

Which is why the first part of my request is to purchase physical media. If you have the physical media, and sell it to me, there is no actionable copyright claim, as no copy has been made.

And why, in the other case, I asserted that I already have a license explicitly permitting copying and use. Apparently every C8000 shipped with such a license, though I can't verify that, but I physically have such a license grant, on paper, that came in the HP-factory-sealed C8000 box which I only opened this week. I therefore don't believe that I've asked anyone to infringe HPE's rights, but if someone thinks that's what I'm asking them to do, then obviously they should declline my request(s).

If HPE believes I am asking anyone to infringe HPE's intellectual property rights, they can certainly let me know.

  Providing an
e-mail address might help.

I don't generally like posting my email address in public forums, but if that's what it's going to take for people to contact me, then fine. My email address is **personal info erased**

> [...] They do not contain LIF filesystem, or any identifiable
> filesystem, [...]

   A claim that broad means little without some clues as to what
"identifiable filesystem" means to you.

No obvious sign of a LIF filesystem, nor HFS or JFS (VxFS). No LVM metadata either.

Also no PC-style partition table, either MBR or GPT, which AFAIK would be useless for booting a C8000.

As I said, nothing recognizable other than an HPPA ELF executable header. If I'm not looking for the right thing(s), then please enlighten me.