HP-UX 9.05 vs. 9.07

[Steven Parrish]

~please don't laugh~

I need to find out what the differences between the 9.05 and 9.07 releases were/are.
Upgrading is not an option. Where can I find info on the older versions?

I have tried the white papers and a site search here at the IT Resource center.

[John Palmer]

(snigger)

I think that 9.05 was for 9000/800 servers and 9.07 was for 9000/700 workstations.

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

Both 9.05/07 are for workstations. They where mainly to add support for new h/w. Can't remember what h/w. I think it was graphic card related. I'd just 9.07 out of choice, although there are no additional fixes in it over 9.05.

Remeber, that neither are Y2K compliant.

[Alex Glennie]

HP-UX 9.07 was primarily a hardware release designed to support
the introduction of the new graphic workstations, drivers etc.....

[Victor BERRIDGE]

What info are you looking for?

[Steven Parrish]

I am trying to find out if there is any diff. in the performence if they are run on the same hardware (743's).
I don't have the graphics exp. board, but that info is useful also.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

I guess its the same but I had less trouble with 9.07 (less cores...and DNS trouble), I cant juge the perfs because I had (still have but notplugged...) a 712/64MB of RAM on HP-UX 9.05 and a 715/128MbRAM on HPUX9.07...
I was hopping having some time to upgrade the 715 to 10.20, maybe one day next year, because for test purpose I upgraded a E25 to 10.2 and it was working fine...
So why not give it a try?

Regards
Victor

[Alex Glennie]

If 9.05 works OK then 9.07 should work OK on the 735 too ! As Andy mentioned the only difference appears to be the graphics drivers/ additional H/W support, so normal hp-ux O/S performance should be similar.

I've certainly seen 9.07 installed on a s700 735 box, though it was sometime ago

[Steven Parrish]

Can't upgrade because the point is to duplicate a systen that uses 9.05.11, but we have a copy of 9.07, and we don't have a copy of 9.05. So we want to know if the results that we get with 9.07 will be an accurate test of what a system with 9.05 gets.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

If both systems are identical why not try using a recovery tape to duplicate?

[Tim Malnati]

Sounds to me like you need to recover an old database to get at some old data (auditing or whatever). As others have stated the differences are mainly hardware issues, but the 9.07 release has a variety of patches that have been included as well. The real challenge here is making sure whatever you install is workable from a patch point of view. In many ways 9.X was more stable from a patching point of view. But where you are probably going to bring data back with frecover, I would make sure the last fbackup/frecover cumulative (PHCO_6738) is applied though where I do recall some issues.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

I just checked,I still have 2 712/64 running HPUX 9.05!!!
I can always make a DAT if you are really stuck...
grep fv /system/UX-CORE/index
fv: A.B9.05.1M

As I forgot to mention your lucky because you have the mkrs command in 9.05, something I wanted on my 9,04 800 servers...
And you can also try :
# dd if=/usr/lib/uxbootlf.700 of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c210d6s0 of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=64k

Good luck
Victor

[Steven Parrish]

Thanks for all the advice. Just to clarify: I'm not trying to recover any files or data, I'm just wondering if there was any signifigant performance diff's between these two operating systems. Judging from all of your advice, there aren't any.