trying to establish depot on a vpar

[pedliz11]

I am trying to establish a depot on a vpar and no not know how to get the distribution software and patches to this vpar via cd or network?

[AwadheshPandey]

http://hpux-tips.blogspot.com/

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Your question is not very clear.

Anyway, the OS on a vPar is working just like on a "normal" server.

You can attach/assign a DVD drive to install software from a DVD media or you can transfer a depot file to the server or you can use another depot server to get software installed over the network.

[pedliz11]

how do you assign a dvd drive to the vpar
also how do you make the other vpars accessable to the depot vpar

[Torsten.]

A DVD drive is assigned to a vPar like any other IO resource by adding the LBA path to the vPar.

I guess an internal drive may already assigned to a vPar (I don't know what model you are using, but this applies to most models).

Maybe it helps if you can tell what software we are talking about.

[pedliz11]

how would you check for an attached dvd drive on a vpar

[James George_1]

Hi

If you don't have a DVD drive, try downloading the s/w to your PC and then ftp it to the vpar server. OR if you have the downloaded s/w / pathces in the XYZ.tar formt on other servers, ftp it to the vpar server and create the depot and install it.

Rgds
James

[Torsten.]

Check for a DVD drive:

ioscan -fn

...
disk 3 1/0/0/3/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c7t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c7t2d0
...
or
...
disk 0 1/0/0/3/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE _NEC DVD_RW ND-
3540A
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0
...

(there is always "DVD" in the name)

[pedliz11]

how do you connect to the dvd if it is not internal to the vpar

[Torsten.]

You can shutdown the vPar and use vparmodify to add the resource

or

you can find a vPar with a assigned DVD drive and use swcopy to copy the software to the disk. Once this is done, you swinstall on the target system, select the source server and install.

As said ealier, if the source is already a depot file on the disk, just copy it to the system and install.