HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide, December 2004

Updating to HP-UX 11i v1

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IMPORTANT Upgrading to a higher level OE is supported only if you are updating

from a lower level HP-UX 11i v1 Operating Environment. You cannot

update, for example, from an HP-UX 11i v1.6 Foundation OE to HP-UX

11i v1 Enterprise OE.

You cannot downgrade from a higher level OE to a lower level OE.

Downgrading an OE

If you want to downgrade your system from a higher-level OE, say, from

Mission Critical OE to Foundation OE, first use update-ux to install the

lower level OE from the latest set of HP-UX 11i v1 media, then use

swremove to remove the unwanted OE bundle and its software. For

example, to move from the 64-bit Mission Critical OE to the 64-bit

default HP-UX 11i v1 OE:

Step 1. As root, add default HP-UX 11i v1 OE:

•CD: /usr/sbin/update-ux -s /cdrom -y HPUX11i-OE

•DVD: /usr/sbin/update-ux -s /dvdrom -y HPUX11i-OE

The -y option causes update-ux to ignore warning messages and

complete the update.

Step 2. Remove the Mission Critical software:

/usr/sbin/swremove HPUX11i-OE-MC

This command removes the IPD entries and software for the additional

(superset) software in the Mission Critical OE, leaving the default

HP-UX 11i v1 OE software intact.

Updating from a Network Depot

To update from a network depot on a remote system named netdepot,

include the path to the depot in the update-ux command. The following

example does an update to the HP-UX 11i v1 Enterprise OE:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s netdepot:/update/update_depot \

HPUX11i-OE-Ent