Patch depot installation

[u856100]

Guru's,

I am having dificulty using swinstall when trying to install a hardware enablement and critical path depot using the HP-UX 11.00 (Sept 99 edition).

The patch I am trying to install is XSWHWCR1100. But there is no depot associated with this that swinstall can find.

I am trying to replicate the structure of a test server, so that we can move its contents (I cant use make_recovery or fbackups because the move is from an L class to a D class (64bit to 32 bit)

Is there a modifier that I can use in swinstall at all?

thanks guys,

John

[Christopher McCray_1]

It's possible you need to register the depot maually first.

# swreg -l depot /cdrom(or SD_SDROM)/XSWHWCR1100

Then try your swinstall.

Hope this helps

Chris

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

Does ls //XSWHWCR1100 list patches?

I mount my cd like this:
mount -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c5t2d0 /cdrom

Then I run swinstall (no options)
I select /cdrom/XSWHWCR1100 as the Source Depot Path
Everything is good to go.

You shouldn't have to register it as a depot however doing so will make it available to you as a selection from the Source Depot Path "popup" menu.

One difference is I'm using the Sept 2001 support plus cd but I expect the behaviour to be the same.

Darrell

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

Use the swinstall interactive interface if you want. Before that mount the support plus cd in the /cdrom directory.

in the swinstall interactive window, source is local cdrom, give the system name and then the source path is /cdrom/XSWHWCR1100

This will list all the patches in the CR bundle and you can select and install the ones you want.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Christopher McCray_1]

Along with mounting the cdrom (assuming you hadn't) also make sure the local CDROM selection has been selected.

Good luck

Chris

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

After you have mounted your cd to /cdrom

try swinstall -s `hostname`:/cdrom

That usually takes care of most errors I have found with swinstall.

GL,
C

[Steffi Jones_1]

You usually get those error messages when there is a typo in the command line.

I have been there myself a million times before :-)

After you mount the cdrom go into the directory and write down exactly where the depot is located. Make sure that you follow all cases correctly. Swinstall is case sensitive.

If you install directly from the cdrom you don't need to register the depot. That has been done before when creating the cd's here at HP.

You have to be as careful with the spelling in the gui version as from the command line.

You can check if the patches are in the directory if you cd into the directory under the cdrom mountpoint. Once you got that verified you should be able to install it fine.

Take care, Steffi JOnes