Installing HPUX 10.2 Support Plus patches

[Eric Firkey]

I have HPUX 10.2 and ACE9912 installed on my C3600 Workstation and I want to install the software on my support plus disk.
700QPK1020
B6825AA
XSW700GR1020
XSW700HW1020
and diagnostics B.10.20-700

Is there a proper order to install these in? or a way to install these all at once? I tried installing them through swinstall, but I can't figure out how to install them more than one at a time and I don't know the proper order to install them in.

Thanks, Eric

[Pete Randall]

Eric,

If you use swcopy to copy them all into one depot (I use the default: /var/spool/sw), you can then install them all at once and the order will no longer matter.


Pete

[Eric Firkey]

I used the swcopy gui to copy each bundle to the directory you recommended and I am currently running swinstall. I couldn't swcopy more than one bundle at a time though, so it took a while to do each one at a time. Is there a way to copy them all at once?

[Eric Firkey]

after swinstall is finished, do I delete these files from /var/spool/sw and is there a correct way to do this?

[Pete Randall]

Sure, use "swremove -d".


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Eric:

> after swinstall is finished, do I delete these files from /var/spool/sw and is there a correct way to do this?

Use the 'cleanup' utility! This will safely recover space in '/var/adm/sw'.

For 10.20, the command can be run without any arguments to remove all superseded patches.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

Eric is referring to the depots that he swcopied into /var/spool/sw on my recommendation. They get removed by running "swremove -d". The cleanup command will remove superceded patches, not depots.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Eric & Pete:

Ah, yes, sorry, Pete. I read '/var/spool/sw' as '/var/adm/sw' and made the mental leap.

To empty all of '/var/spool/sw' you could do:

# swremove -d \* @ /var/spool/sw'

(or, simply)

# rm -rf /var/spool/sw

Regards!

...JRF...

[Eric Firkey]

OK, I installed all of the following:

HPUX 10.2
ACE9912
from support plus disk:
700QPK1020
B6825AA
XSW700GR1020
XSW700HW1020
and diagnostics B.10.20-700

and also OpenGL

and I still can't get fx graphics to work, neither the fxe or fx5 cards. They show up as unknown in an ioscan. Does anyone know what I may be missing or possibly doing wrong. This is on a C3600 workstation. Thanks.

[Andrew Rutter]

eric,

Check this manual for details and check you have the patches required for 10.20 it has listed.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpv38355/lpv38355.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Also what is the firmwre version of the workstation, latest is 5.0

Also is the card in the correct primary slot, and also set up to be the boot console path at PDC. It needs to be to come up properly in hpux.

You could also try and recreate the device files aswell with

#insf -ev

the do a full ioscan without options

#ioscan

Andy

[Eric Firkey]

thanks, I tried all of that and it isn't working correctly.

Manual says I need hpux10.20 with ACE9912 (Dec 99) and B6825A which I have all on there.

[Bob E Campbell]

Patches were very different before 11.00. The part that matters here is that a depot could not contain superseded patches. Now, if the QPK, GR, and HW bundles all have the same revision they can be swcopied into a single depot together.

I would suggest the following:

1. Use swcopy to combine the .depot files

2. Run cleanup against the depot to remove superseded patches

3. Use the "-x match_target=true" option rather than explicit selections during swinstall.

You might still see errors in the logs (things had rougher edges then). Let us know what errors you see and we can work through them.

[Eric Firkey]

I did run swcopy to copy all the files to /var/spool/sw, I think, and then swinstalled them all at once, but this didn't work either. I am rather new to this and don't know the cleanup or "-x match_target=true" option commands. I ran swinstall from the GUI. Can you give me the exact commands I will need for cleanup and swinstall? I know this is asking a lot but I have spent days on this. Thanks. Eric

1. Use swcopy to combine the .depot files

2. Run cleanup against the depot to remove superseded patches

3. Use the "-x match_target=true" option rather than explicit selections during swinstall.

[Eric Firkey]

when I try to run cleanup, the cleanup file doesn't exist.

[Bob E Campbell]

The cleanup script does not ship with the base OS. You can only get the patch tools as a patch. For 10.20 the patch is PHCO_20824. Once installed the man page should be able to explain it.