HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide, December 2003

Cold Installing HP-UX 11i v1
Next Steps
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Next Steps
• Your task is nearly complete. If you cold-installed to enable a
hardware upgrade, proceed with the hardware phase of the upgrade.
Ask your HP Customer Engineer for more information.
• To potentially improve performance, run sam as root and remove any
unneeded network drivers. The drivers listed in Table 4-4 on page 82
are installed by default. For help using sam, see its Help screens or
the Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System
Administrators manual.
How to Retrieve Information After Cold-Installing
After completing the cold-install, you can retrieve the information you
had previously saved onto another system. Here are some tips:
Create a New Directory for Root Users
Consider creating a root home directory that is not /. This keeps the user
root dot files out of the / directory. Make sure it is on the root volume by
not locating it under the mount point of the file system. A good name to
uses /homeroot (not /home/root) as /home is often a mount point. This
is especially important if you are using LVM or VxVM and /home is a
separate volume.
Step 1. From the CDE login screen, select Options -> Command Line Login and
login as root.
Step 2. Except on trusted systems, edit /etc/passwd to change the home
directory from root to /homeroot and save it.
Step 3. Create the /homeroot directory:
mkdir /homeroot
Step 4. Move root’s personal files (files beginning with . ) to /homeroot:
ls -a | grep “^\.” | grep -v “^\.$” | grep -v “^\.\.$” | \
cpio -pdmv /homeroot
Step 5. Exit and log in again as root.