Administrator's Guide

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see “Contacting HP” (page 45).
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9.2 New and changed information in this edition
The following additions and changes have been made for this edition:
• The following information has been updated:
— Chapter 1 About Dynamic Root Disk
— Chapter 3 Updating and maintaining software on the clone
— Chapter 5 Synchronizing the inactive clone image with the booted system
— Chapter 8 Troubleshooting DRD
— Chapter 9 Support and other resources
— Appendix A DRD commands
9.3 Locating this guide
This guide is available from the following sources:
• The HP-UX Dynamic Root Disk - Manuals page at http://www.hp.com/go/drd-docs
• The September 2010 HP-UX Instant Information media (CD or DVD) that is included with both
the September 2010 HP-UX Application Release (AR) media and September 2010 HP-UX
Operating Environment (OE) media for both HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3.
IMPORTANT: Check the HP-UX Dynamic Root Disk - Manuals page (http://www.hp.com/go/
drd-docs) for the latest revision of this guide. The guide on the September 2010 HP-UX Instant
Information media is an initial version and may contain outdated information.
9.4 Related information
For more information about HP Dynamic Root Disk, including the latest versions of manuals, product
information, and white papers, visit http://www.hp.com/go/drd.
9.5 Typographic conventions
This document uses the following typographic conventions.
Book Title Title of a book or other document.
Linked Title Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document.
http://www.hp.com A website address that is a hyperlink to the site.
Command Command name or qualified command phrase.
user input Commands and other text that you type.
computer output Text displayed by the computer.
Enter The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer
to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must
hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key.
variable The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
value A value that you may replace in a command or function, or information
in a display that represents several possible values.
46 Support and other resources