Ignite-UX Reference (March 2010, B3921-90005)

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make_boot_tape(1M) make_boot_tape(1M)

starting point for what is written to the tape.

−g gateway Speciﬁes the default Internet address for the gateway system through which the

target system may reach the Ignite-UX server. This is useful when the target

systems are not on the same subnet as the Ignite-UX server.

The conﬁguration already in

/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_release/*INSTALLFS is used as a starting

point in this case. The gateway speciﬁed is added to this data. If your situation

requires a netmask to be set (see -m below), you will need to specify a net-

mask with the -m option. By default, when a gateway is speciﬁed with -g,

any existing netmask in /opt/ignite/boot/Rel_release/*INSTALLFS

will be ignored.

−m netmask Speciﬁes the default netmask for the client to use in reaching the Ignite-UX

server. This is necessary if your network uses subnetworks. The netmask is the

same as that supplied to the ifconfig command (see ifconﬁg(1M).) net-

mask may be supplied either in dot notation (for example, 255.255.248.0)

or as a hexadecimal number with a leading 0x (for example, 0xfffff80).

The conﬁguration already in

/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_release/*INSTALLFS is used as a starting

point in this case. The netmask speciﬁed is added to this data.

−t tmp_directory

Speciﬁes that the directory tmp_directory be used to store all the temporary ﬁles

created by make_boot_tape. The default is /var/tmp. The disk space

requirements for this directory vary somewhat, but typically 50MB of free disk

space is necessary.

−v Enables verbose mode. Information is written about the execution of the com-

mand to stdout.

−? Displays the help screen.

International Code Set Support

Ignite-UX uses a variety of system commands to accomplish its functionality. Because the output of many

of these commands is parsed, Ignite-UX ensures that the POSIX locale is normally used by modifying envi-

ronment variables. Help text and some command output not parsed by Ignite-UX will be left in the user’s

speciﬁed locale.

RETURN VALUE

make_boot_tape will return 0 (zero) if the operation was successful. It will return non-zero if a failure

occurred.

EXAMPLES

Create a boot tape on the default tape drive (/dev/rmt/0m).

make_boot_tape

Create a boot tape on a speciﬁed (non-default) tape drive. Create a DDS1 device ﬁle for the tape drive ﬁrst.

Show as much information about the tape creation as is possible:

ioscan -fC tape # to get the hardware path

mksf -v -H <hardware path> -b DDS1 -n -a

make_boot_tape -d /dev/<devfile created by mksf> -v

Create a boot tape and replace the conﬁguration information contained in the INSTALLFS ﬁle. Use the

/tmp directory for all temporary ﬁles instead of the default /var/tmp:

instl_adm -d > tmp_configuration_file

# edit tmp_configuration_file as appropriate