Using Golden Images with Virtual Partitions

Enabling the Client

Since the Ignite-UX server now knows about the new golden image archive, you can use

Ignite-UX to install it onto a client. To do this, you need to get the client to inform the

Ignite-UX server that it is ready to install a new operating system.

From the console, start by shutting down the virtual partition that you are going to

ignite. For example, if you are going to install the golden image onto the virtual partition

vprobin2, the command executed from the virtual partition vprobin2 is:

vprobin2# shutdown –h

Once you have shut down the virtual partition, change to a running (up) virtual partition

using Ctrl-A. Then, start the installation by performing a vparboot –I. The –I (dash capital i)is

boots the virtual partition you wish to ignite using the Ignite-UX server that contains your

golden image archive:

- PA-RISC-Based Systems

With Ignite-UX versions prior to C.06.xx, execute the command as follows:

vparboot -p <partition> -I <Ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

With Ignite-UX versions C.06.xx and newer, execute the command as follows:

vparboot -p <partition> -I <Ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.??/WINSTALL

where ?? represents the OS version (for example, Rel_B.11.23)

Example: if the Ignite-UX server has the IP of ww.xx.yy.zz and is running Ignite-UX

version C.06.xx, from the virtual partition vprobin1 that is up and running HP-UX 11i

v2, to ignite of a golden image onto the virtual partition vprobin2:

vprobin1# vparboot -p vprobin2 -I ww.xx.yy.zz,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

- Integrity Systems

For vPars on Integrity systems, the command is:

vparboot -p <partition> -I

Example:

vprobin1# vparboot -p vprobin2 -I