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

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Updating an Existing Operating System and Software
Updating SD-UX Before Installing/Updating Software
Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software
CAUTION Before you can update to, for example, 11.0, you must extract the new
version of SD-UX from the 11.0 CD or software depot from which you
plan to update your system.
Do not attempt to use your present version of swinstall to update the
system to a newer version. The update will fail. Updating SD-UX is also
necessary when transitioning between word-width versions within a
particular release.
Optional Preparation Some system configurations may hang when swgettools is run while
the old SW-DIST.RUPDATE fileset remains on the system. The following
step will prevent this possibility. Run the following before invoking
swgettools for an update to HP-UX 11.0:
/usr/sbin/swremove SW-DIST.RUPDATE
Procedure To update SD-UX, you must first load the swgettools utility onto your
system, and then use swgettools to get the new version of SD-UX.
The swgettools command needs a temporary directory with at least 2
MB of free space. By default, swgettools will use the /var/tmp
directory. If there is not enough space in the temporary directory
swgettools will fail.
You can tell swgettools to use a different temporary directory by
means of the -t dir_path command-line option. You must do this if you
do not have 2 MB free in /var/tmp. Use bdf /var/tmp to determine
this.
Preparation: Loading
swgettools
The swgettools utility is shipped in the
catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles directory. Depending on whether the
new software is on CD or a remote system in a software depot, use cp or
rcp, respectively, to load swgettools onto your system. Skip to the
section below for more examples and other options.
For example, to load swgettools from a local CD-ROM mounted at
/SD_CDROM into /var/tmp, enter the following:
cp /SD_CDROM/catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp