Installing HP-UX 11.0 and Updating HP-UX 10.x to 11.0 HP 9000 Computers Edition 1

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HP-UX System Recovery

System Recovery: Creating a Bootable Recovery Tape

To duplicate the recovered system disk or volume group, do the following:

1. Mount the system recovery tape on the tape drive.

2. Boot the system.

3. Interrupt the boot sequence to redirect it to the tape drive.

4. Cancel the non-interactive installation by hitting any key when given

the opportunity.

5. Provide necessary conﬁguration information such as disks,

hostname, IP address, timezone, root password, and DNS server.

6. Allow the install process to complete.

For More Examples

and Information

See the man page make_recovery(1M) for details on using the options,

and the syntax for doing so.

Creating a Bootable Install Tape

The make_medialif command creates a bootable LIF image which can

be copied to either a DDS tape or a writable CD to create an Ignite-UX

install medium.

Examples Some typical examples of the use of make_medialif are the following:

• To create a boot LIF image using the conﬁg ﬁle /home/root/myconﬁg

and then place it in /home/root/uxinstlf, enter the following:

# make_medialif -f /home/root/myconfig -l /home/root/uxinstlf

• To create a bootable DDS medium that will allow the installation of a

conﬁguration deﬁned on an Ignite-UX server, for example, the

"HP-UX B.10.20 Default" conﬁguration, and using the same tape

drive as before, do the following:

# make_medialif -c "HP-UX B.10.20 Default" -l \

/home/root/uxinstlf

# mt -t /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDS1n rew

# dd if=/home/root/uxinstlf of=/dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDS1n obs=2k

# mt -t /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDS1n rew