HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, December 2007

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Known Install and Update Problems
Appendix A 155
Whole Disk Installation
Not Supported with VxFS
and 18 GB Disks
The installation of HP-UX is not supported in the Whole
Disk install configuration with VxFS and only disks 18 GB
in size.
If you attempt a Whole Disk installation of VxFS on 18 GB
disks, then the installation is likely to hang at various
points during the installation process.
What to Do
You should avoid installing with VxFS using the whole disk
option on any 18 GB disk. We recommend you use LVM or
VxVM to partition the disk as an alternative installation
configuration.
last_install configuration
already exists Warning
During an update to HP-UX 11i v2, the following warning
may appear in your swagent.log:
WARNING: The configuration named 'last_install'
already exists.
NOTE: Continuing since -f flag was specified.
* Please wait: flushing kernel registry database
to disk.
* The current configuration has been saved to
'last_install'.
* The title of the configuration 'last_install'
has been set to "Created by last OS install".
This problem is caused by the kernel configuration tools
attempting to save a copy of the newly updated system
configuration to /stand/last_install. Because a previous
version of the configuration already exists from the
previous install or update, a warning is issued.
You can safely ignore this warning. The kernel
configuration tools overwrite the previous configuration
with the latest version, as expected.
Table A-1 Known Install and Update Problems (Continued)
Problem Description/Action