SLP Release Notes

Installation Information

Installing SLP

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Installing SLP

After downloading the software package from HP’s software depot at

www.software.hp.com, use the swinstall command to install the

package on your system. Detailed information on how to conﬁgure and

use SLP can be found in the respective man pages.

Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard Support Line

User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms and conditions for

precautions, scope of license, restrictions, and, limitation of liability and

warranties, before installing this upgrade.

The following are the steps to install SLP:

• Back up your system before installing a upgrade.

• Login as root.

• Copy the upgrade to the /tmp directory.

• Move to the /tmp directory:

cd /tmp

• Run swinstall to install the upgrade:

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/upgrade_slp.tar

By default, swinstall will archive the original software in

/var/adm/sw/save/upgrade_slp. If you do not wish to retain a copy

of the original software, use the patch_save_files option:

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -x

patch_save_files=false -s /tmp/upgrade_slp.tar

WARNING If patch_save_ﬁles is false when a upgrade is installed, the

upgrade cannot be deinstalled. Please be careful when using

this feature.

To put this upgrade on a magnetic tape and install from the tape

drive, use the command:

dd if=/tmp/upgrade_slp.tar of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2k