swinstall

[trystan macdonald]

I am trying to upgrade a standalone HP-UX 11.0 machine to HP-UX 11i with hostname "labtest1".

Firstly, following the procedures from the HP-UX 11i installation and update guide, I have mounted the CD under /cdrom, inserted the HP-UX 11i CD 1 and entered the following command:

swinstall -s /cdrom SW-DIST.SD-UPDATE \@ /var/adm/sw/update-ux.root 2> /dev/null

I now get an error message:

ERROR: could not contact host "labtest1". Make sure hostname is correct.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Trystan

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You need to have swagentd running.

Before you begin, PLEASE make TWO make_tape_recovery tapes!!


BTW, you really aren't going to UPGRADE from 11.00 to 11i are you? It's really not recommended.

A cold install of 11i is really the safest thing to do.

live free or die
harry

[trystan macdonald]

I have /usr/sbin/swagentd -r running but I still get the same error as before:
could not contact host "labtest1". Make sure hostname is correct.

[Mateja Bezjak]

Hi Trystan,

What is the nslookup output? Make sure it contains also the domain name.

Regards,
Mateja

[Trond Haugen]

Also try a nslookup of the IPaddress that 'nslookup labtest1' returns.
You may also want to ry restarting swagentd (swagentd -r).

Regards,
Trond

[trystan macdonald]

have tried nslookup - nothing, however this machine is not on a network at the moment

[Mateja Bezjak]

Hi again,

This might be the problem. For SD to function properly, the machine has to be on the network. SD is built that way that it depends on DNS.

Regards,
Mateja

[Trond Haugen]

If not on a network you could edit /etc/hosts to have "labtest1" as an ailias to IPaddress 127.0.0.1.

Regards,
Trond

[Martin Johnson]

Put an entry for labtest1 into /etc/hosts and make sure /etc/nsswitch.conf is set up to use files.

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

HTH
Marty