Install HPUX 11 from Ignite

[Peter_227]

Hi,
Recently I installed HPUX ignote on a K class server with HPUX 11. I now look forward to install HPUX 11 on few workstations on the LAN.
I have referred the Ignite Admin Docs but I am not clear with the procedure for this. My Workstations ad Few other Server are of different configuration hence I decided to install core os from the 3 CD set.

Now:

1. Is there ay other way too??

On giving boot LAN.SERVER_IP Install from the client I get the client listed on the Ignite Server. Things go well and installs the First CD but

2. Why is it not asking me for the second and subsequently the third CD??

3.I am going wrong somewhere? Will I have to make some image or depot first?

4. Why aren't the things listed in the Ignite admin doc or they are listed but I am not able to interpret them?

Thanks for all your help...


Peter

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
If I remember correct Ignite can be used together with CD depots but it is much easier to install clients if you create an Ingnite depot first. Start the Ignite GUI on the Ignite server ("ignite"), select "Actions" and then "Tutorial/Server setup" and follow the instructions.

[Steven E. Protter]

When you build the Ignite Server you do an swcopy on all three core os cd's to the Ignite Server. That step gets everything you need to build the basic OS onto the Ignite server

Approximate synatx(300 miles from my servers today).

swcopy -s /cdrom/... @ /location_of_ignite depot.

See the Ignite manual for the actual commands.

Direct answers to your questions:
1) You can push from an ignite server using the /opt/ignite/bin/ignite command and following the steps from new install. There are steps to set up an Ignite server, which are quite numerous, but you sound like you're already gonig that way.

2) On an install if there is nothing chosen from the third cd it won't ask for it. The third cd is a recent add in and there may not be a lot of content on it. See the above notes for more.

3) Answered above. swcopy in the Ignite manual.

4) The admin doc is not as good as the Ignite HP education documentation.

Post a link to the doc you are using and I'll find you a better one later in the day.

SEP

[Pratyush Paul_1]

This is how I do it in the place.

#swcopy -s /cdrom @ /depot/core
#swcopy -s /pkg @ /depot/pkg
#swcopy -s /patch @ /depot/patch
#swcopy -s /script @ /depot/script

Now do this. to generate the config files.

# for i in core pkg patch script
do
make_config -s /depot/$i -c /var/depot/$i
done

# vi INDEX ( include the above config files in a new configuration stanza)

# instl_adm -T (check if the config files and your INDEX file is error free)

# ignite ( GUI ) ....action menu ...boot clients)

Choose the configuration from the ignite GUI and start the install.

Please let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

Thanks

Pratyush

[Peter_227]

Thank you very much for your replies. Just incase anybody has any other document specifies these steps then please do let me know.

I am using this document:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B2355-90829.pdf

Is there any other document specifying the steps to install HPUX 11 from Ignite servers from three CDs

[Scot Bean]

Not clear if you are using 11.00 or 11.11.

Here's a summary page from the 11.11 Installation and Update Guide about ways to install.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-3614/5187-3614.html

If you selected stuff to install that is on multiple CDs, the ignite process should prompt you, BUT the prompt MAY be on the machine's CONSOLE. Check there.

It is also possible to install without using all of the CDs, depending on your selections.