Ignite - Core OS Depot

[Michael Ernstoff]

I have an HP-UX 11.00 server. It is remotely located and I cannot use the CD easily.
I downloaded Ignite depots (version 6.2.241) for both 11.00 and 11.11 and installed them on this server.
When I go into Ignite server configuration, and run Server Setup, then Software Depot Setup, ignite tells me that the depot does not contain any Core software.
How do I set up the Core software depot without access to a CD?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Michael,

Procedure for install/upgrade Ignite.

swremove the old version first.

swinstall -s \*

Example

swinstall -s /tmp/ignite.depot \*

No access to the Core OS cd is required for this.

Please post an exact error message so that I may conduct a proper search.

SEP

[Scot Bean]

Ignite wants a depot to install HPUX software.

Are you wanting to make the remote machine an Ignite server, or have a local Ignite server service the remore machine?

See "man make_depots" to see how to setup a SW Depot for ignite.

Basicly, you need some HPUX install CDs. You can make a network depot from them with swcopy or make_depots. Then Ignite can use them for installs.

[Michael Ernstoff]

Shalom Steven,
The process you describe is exactly what I went through. I do not have exact error message at the moment as I am at home now.
Will post again in the morning.

Scot,
I have two remote machines. One has been trashed and will not boot up into HP-UX but I have a remote console. The other I have installed Ignite on, so that I can do a rebuild on the first. When I do the boot lan.igniteip install, I get as far as the build screen, but am told that there is no Core OS software available. It is difficult to arrange CDs for either machine, although I should be able to copy any files across the network.

[Scot Bean]

- So use local install CDs.
- 'swcopy' all of them to a local network depot
- use 'make_depots" cmd on remote machine, pointing to your local depot with the "-s" option

This will setup a core depot on the remote machine ignite can use.

Then use
'make_config'
on that remote depot to configure it.