Unable to update from 10.20 to 11iv1 FOE

[Olivier Decorse]

Hello,
i'm trying to update a HP D280 10.20 to the june 2004 HPUX 11iv1.
Updating Update-UX with swinstall works fine, but i the step after (update-ux -s /cdrom HPUX11i-OE) returns a error whith an error like :
Unable to read /var/tmp/BAA-a-xxxx/catalog/SOE.SOE-ENG-A-MAN/INFO : file not found.
While the installation run, i can verify that this file exists !! Of course, some seconds after, the directory is removed.

I try to update to 11iv1 without FOE but still the error message.
Does anybody have an idea how to resolve this problem ?

Thanks in advance !
Olivier.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Olivier,

Just found a german HP doc suggesting to use the pfs_mount to mount the cdrom before upgrading.

http://docs.hp.com/de/5990-8149/apbs02.html

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi Olivier,
my idea is to backup your data, and do cold install (fresh install) of HP-UX 11i.

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Pete Randall]

Olivier,

The 10.20 to 11.x upgrade progress was awful. I've seen very few people who were able to successfully make this upgrade. Most people ended up doing a cold install. If your data is kept separate from your root disk, it's a relatively simple matter to cold install, re-apply localizations like networking, passwords, etc, then use vgimport to re-introduce your data VG's. Make sure you run vgexport with the -s and -m options first, saving the map file somewhere where you can get to it. Then, after your install, just run:

mkdir /dev/vg01
mknod /dev/vg01/group c 64 0x010000
vgimport -s -m /tmp/vg01map /dev/vg01

Good luck!


Pete

[Olivier Decorse]

Pete and Zygmunt : thanks but i have to make an update, no cold install.
Robert-Jan : thanks for the tips. My German is bad but i read that pfs_mount have to be used with a DVD media under 10.20, not with cdrom.
I will try and let you know if it works better (and submit points, of course !).

Olivier.

[Olivier Decorse]

Thank you, Robert !
Olivier.