ignite ux boot administration

[Mel Burslan]

Well, I know the subject of my message is too obscure but I could not figure out how to put a more intelligent one in the space provided.

Copied 11.11 v1 DVD into a depot on my ignite server. Then created a bootable system image using ignite TUI. My clients can find and boot from the ignite server and load OS from this image but everytime, I need to go in and change the fs sizes and how their size gets handled (fixed, free, free% etc.) and add dns servers, ntp servers, all that fun stuff over a serial connection. Time consuming if nothing else. I know there was a file which presented these values with defaults to the install TUI but for the life of me I cannot remember where this file(s) was(were). Could someone tell me what I am looking for. It has been a long time I have not dealt with creating golden ignite images and mangling them and my brain cells, obviously, migrated south...

[Jeff_Traigle]

/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.11/config controls the default file system types and sizes. Recommended method of making customizations is to copy this file to /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.11, make your modifications to the copy, and Edit /var/opt/ignite/INDEX to use the modified version.

The network settings can be configured in /var/opt/ignite/config.local and included in the INDEX file also.

The Ignite-UX Administration Guide available at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11.0/index.html#Installing%20and%20Updating gives a very thorough description of Ignite-UX configuration.

[Sundar_7]

Hi Mel,

I believe you are looking for the config.local file.

You can create a config.local file in the directory /var/opt/ignite/clients//recovery and add customization/define defaults for the installation.

You also need to add reference for this file in /var/opt/ignite/clients//CINDEX file.

You can use instl_adm to check the syntax of this file.

-- Sundar.

[Sundar_7]

If you run make_recovery in preview mode (-p) option, it will create /var/opt/ignite/recovery/config.recover file.

This config.recover can be copied over to the /var/opt/ignite/clients//recovery/config.local and edited for customization.