Installation guide

Managing Flash Cards
3-34 Fault Tolerant System Administration (R1004H) HP-UX version 11.00.03
Creating a New Flash Card
To initialize a new flash card with the Stratus flash image, copy an installation flash
image from the system to the flash card. To do this, use the following procedure:
1. Check that the installation flash image has been installed. To do this, enter
swlist | grep Flash-Contents
ls /stand/flash/ramdisk0
2. If /stand/flash/ramdisk0 does not exist, do the following:
a. Determine the CD-ROM device file name. To do this, enter
ioscan -fn -C disk
The CD-ROM device file name is of the form /dev/dsk/c#t#d#.
b. Place the Fault Tolerant Services CD-ROM into the drive and mount the
CD-ROM. To do this, enter
mount device_file /SD_CDROM
device_file is the device file for the CD-ROM drive. For example, if the
CD-ROM drive is in bay 3, SCSI ID 4, enter
mount /dev/dsk/c3t4d0 /SD_CDROM
c. Install the Flash-Contents fileset. To do this, enter
swinstall -s /SD_CDROM Flash-Contents
3. Copy the flash image to a new flash card. To do this, enter
flashdd dev_name /stand/flash/ramdisk0
dev_name is the device name of the flash card to be written, which is either
/dev/rflash/c2a0d0 (card-cage 2) or /dev/rflash/c3a0d0 (card-cage
3). For more information, see the swinstall(1M) and flashdd(1) man pages.
Duplicating a Flash Card
To duplicate a flash card, enter
flashcp from_devname to_devname
from_devname is the device name of the flash card you want to duplicate and
to_devname is the device name of the new flash card.
Use /dev/rflash/c2a0d0 for the flash card in card-cage 2; use
/dev/rflash/c3a0d0 for the flash card in card-cage 3.
For more information, see the flashcp(1) man page.