moving machines across subnets

[phil foster]

I had to move a machine to another subnet, when I powered it up
on the new subnet it hangs during the boot sequence. I was told
that this was because I had to change my IP number as it was trying
to talk to the DNS server. I had initally thought that I could move it
and power it on and make the changes quickly and hup the box
while it was complaining about not having any networking.
(and it's old IP address has already been taken over by another
machine.) so the question is, how do I get this thing up so I can
change it's IP?

[Alan Riggs · Accepted solution]

Boot the server.
Interrupt the boot sequence.
Go to single user mode.
- bo pri
- (y) to interact with ISL
- hpux -is
Change the IP. (setparms ip_address or just edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf)

[phil foster]

This did it. be sure to also change the gateway info under the addtl_network
option also.

thanks for the quick response.