Simulate 2. CD with ignite-ux?

[Erik Heckers]

Hello!

Hello I have problems with an L3000.

I have two CDs:

A) HP-UX 11.0 core os
B) HP-UX 11.0 Support Plus

When I install with CD A)
the software (711 filesets) is installed and
directly afterwards I'm asked to
enter CD B) and a second
swinstall is running and
installs software from
the depot HWE1100 from
that CD (167 filesets).

Afterwards the system is
rebooted (for the first time!) and everything works
fine.

But I don't want to use CDs, I want to use an Ignite-UX server.

So I copied the depot
HWE1100 (from CD B) to
the Ignite-UX server.

The problem with my L3000 is that it needs patches from
CD B) before it reboots for the first time.

I created a config file for
HWE1100 (make_config),
set the sw_sel ... to TRUE,
and updated INDEX.

If I install my L3000
using my Ignite-UX server
I can see that HWE1100 is
selected for installation
but after the installation
of the Core OS the
machine reboots before
installing HWE1100.

I already tried different
values for load_order
in the sw_source (0 and 5)
of the config file of HWE1100
but that didn't help.

How can I tell my Ignite-UX
to install HWE1100 before
rebooting?
Or more general:
How can I install from
multiple depots before
the Ignite-UX client reboots for the first time.

I have a workaround currently,
I copy HWE1100 into the
'Core OS' depot, but that
doesn't work 100% because
I get lots of new error
messages. (I guess some products in HWE1100 don't
expect to be installed on
an empty system).

BTW: I'm using the european
server. Links to documents
of the USA IT resource center
don't seem to work.

Thank you for your help
Eri

[Fabrice Meynard]

Hello,

i suppose you have already done make_config -s -c .
In this case, what happen if in /var/opt/ignite/INDEX you put the prcedent config line just after "/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/core_700_archive_cfg" line ?
Does system reboot before installing HWE1100 ?

Fabrice

[Peter Eisentraeger]

Hello Erik,
I learnd that I had to deal with two CDs. But if You want to built a golden image, You must do this only once. All succeeding depots I installed without reboot with following trick I saw from Ford-people. Just eliminate the reboot command, install from several depots, redefine the reboot-command and reboot. During install some software which is superseded in the following depots is installed but not configured. During reboot this will cause errors during reboot. Check this but I saw only Xserver / Motif / Firmware patches is this case.

Example:
mv /sbin/reboot /tmp/reboot
echo "#!/bin/sh" > /sbin/reboot
chown bin:bin /sbin/reboot
chmod 555 /sbin/reboot

/usr/sbin/swinstall -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x autoreboot=true -x patch_save_files=false -s iss064:/SD_DEPOT/hpux11_2diag \* ;

/usr/sbin/swinstall -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x autoreboot=true -x patch_save_files=false -s iss064:/SD_DEPOT/hpux11_3pre_app \* ;

/usr/sbin/swinstall -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x autoreboot=true -x patch_save_files=false -s iss064:/SD_DEPOT/hpux11_4app \* ;

/usr/sbin/swinstall -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -x patch_save_files=false -s iss064:/SD_DEPOT/hpux11_5patches \* ;

mv /tmp/reboot /sbin/reboot
chown bin:bin /sbin/reboot
chmod 555 /sbin/reboot

sync
sync
/sbin/reboot

[Erik Heckers]

Hello!

Thanx for your help!

After a long evening
I found out that I broke
the config file I created
with make_config for HWE1100

The parameter 'load_order'
in the sw_source clause
is your friend!

I use load_order=1 for
the HWE1100 sw_source clause
and it properly installs
after the core os but
before the system is rebooted.

Erik

[Jordan Bean]

Instead of using make_depots, I used swcopy to put all the relevent stuff from all the CDs (core, support plus, and some applications) and some third party bundles into a single depot at
/var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.00/core.

Then I used

make_config -s /var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.00/core -c /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/core_cfg

and

manage_index -a -f /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/core_cfg

Then I started up Ignite for the first time and configure it to use the newly created depot.

Finally, all of these bundles (except for the third party stuff like Legato Networker and EMC PowerPath) were available during a new install in the software tab... Wonderful! And the kernel was built only once!

All I need now is to figure out how to make the software from others vendors available as well. Any ideas? (Maybe I should create a separate post so I can assign you all points later.)