HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading
Servers with vPars
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars
• “Bundle Names” (page 73)
• Ignite-UX. See “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” (page 75)
• “Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I” (page 76)
• Installing or Updating vPars
“Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC” (page 116)◦
◦ “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity” (page 118)
◦ “Installing vPars with Software Distributor ” (page 120)
◦ “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx” (page 78)
◦ “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05)
Environment” (page 82)
◦ “Migrating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars (A.03.05, A.04.02
or later, A.05.03)” (page 94)
◦ “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx and A.05.xx)
Environment” (page 96)
◦ “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.05.xx” (page 105)
◦ “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx” (page 105)
◦ “Updating vPars A.03.xx to vPars A.03.05” (page 108)
◦ “Updating from vPars (A.02.xx or A.03.xx) to A.03.xx ” (page 110)
• Upgrading Server Chipsets
• “Removing the vPars Product” (page 121)
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install
vPars
Notes
Be sure you understand vPars before attempting the updates and installations. See Chapter 2:
“How vPars and Its Components Work ” (page 27) and Chapter 3: “Planning Your System for
Virtual Partitions” (page 46).
Booting from HP-UX Install Media
(Integrity only) Under vPars A.05.02 and later, the vPars Monitor supports booting an install kernel
from CD or DVD media with the vparload -p partition_name -D disk_index command.
For details, see “vPars Monitor: Using vPars Monitor Commands” (page 133).
Related Information
For information on the installation of HP-UX and what is supported for your HP-UX version, see the
applicable HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide and the HP-UX 11i Release Notes for your
OS version.
For information on swinstall and software depots, see the manual "Software Distributor
Administration Guide for HP-UX".
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