HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, March 2006

Updating to HP-UX 11i v2

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Updating to HP-UX 11i v2 OS (No OE Installed)

IMPORTANT If you already have an Operating Environment installed on your system,

you cannot use this scenario. Instead, use “Updating to HP-UX 11i v2 OS

(OE Installed)” on page 120. Attempting this scenario when you already

have an Operating Environment installed will cause update-ux to fail.

NOTE HP strongly recommends that you update your system with an

Operating Environment to provide you with an integrated and tested set

of supporting software and applications.

If you do not specify an OE bundle, update-ux only installs the OS,

networking, diagnostic, and CDE bundles listed in Appendix C, “HP-UX

11i v2 Software Bundles,” on page 165. Any additional software bundles

associated with an OE are not installed.

For example, to update the HP-UX 11i v2 OS, insert the HP-UX 11i v2

DVD in the local mounted drive and enter the following command:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /dvdrom

Adding or Upgrading an OE

To install an OE on an HP-UX 11i v2 system not containing an OE, or to

upgrade HP-UX 11i v2 to higher-level OE (for example, HP-UX 11i v2

Foundation OE to HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise OE), insert the HP-UX 11i

v2 DVD and specify the new OE using the update-ux command.

For example, to add the HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise OE, enter:

/usr/sbin/update-ux -s /dvdrom HPUX11i-OE-Ent

When the update is complete, the original OE bundle wrapper (if one

existed) is removed and replaced with the new bundle wrapper.

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

from a lower level HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environment.

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