Ignite a server from a tape drive on a network connected server

[B Wade Moll]

Is it possible to ignite a server from a network connected server which has a tape drive ?

I have connected through the ILO of a server. It has HP-UX on it (it's been in use by another team which no longer needs it). I'm on as root and have established a network connection and can log in a server which has a tape drive.

Can I use that drive to ignite this box with the image that's on the tape on server 2?

[Analyst · Accepted solution]

1.Its possible ,While booting go for the options ,boot from media - choose the tape drive .

2.If you are trying to ignite over network, the server and the client should be in same subnet.

[john123]

Ignite only work with locally visible tape drives, Or u can use make_net_recovery to an NFS shared FS.

Regards
John

[Tingli]

It will be easier to use the remote server as ignite boot server instead of the remote tape.

After the boot up, you might need to modify file /var/opt/ignite/INDEX to find the .cfg file, which points the tape driver. Although I am not sure it is possible.

[B Wade Moll]

Ok, so it's not a straightforward process on the ia64 servers to boot from a network IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx at 0/5/1/1.1.0 ?

That's really all I need to do ...

Thank you everyone that has helped so far...