HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, September 2004
Table Of Contents
- 1 Welcome to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 2 System Requirements for Cold-Installing and Updating
- 3 Choosing an Installation Method
- Supported Cold-Install Paths to HP-UX 11i v2
- Supported Update Paths to HP-UX 11i v2
- Deciding Which Method to Use
- Time to Complete a Cold Install or Update
- When to Cold-Install
- When to Update
- Additional Cold-Install Considerations
- Additional Update Considerations
- Requirement for Updating from HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22)
- Requirement for Updating from Earlier Releases of HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)
- HP Service Partition Is Not Created During Update (Itanium-based Systems Only)
- Update-UX Contains a Default-Installed Selection File
- Update-UX Creates Two Backup Configurations
- Security Considerations
- Standard HP-UX Bundle Considerations
- Online Diagnostics
- Offline Diagnostics
- The Next Step
- 4 Preparing to Install or Update to HP-UX 11i v2
- 5 Cold-Installing HP-UX 11i v2
- 6 Updating to HP-UX 11i v2
- 7 Installing HP Applications and Patches
- 8 Verifying System Install or Update
- A Data Collection Tables
- B Known Problems and Troubleshooting
- C Controlling Memory Utilization of VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX
- D Software Distribution Media
- HP-UX 11i v2 Core Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Patch Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Always-Installed Network and Mass Storage Drivers
- HP-UX 11i v2 Default-Installed Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Selectable Software Bundles
- HP-UX 11i v2 Selectable Network Drivers
Choosing an Installation Method
Deciding Which Method to Use
Chapter 358
Determining Whether You Have an HP Service Partition
To determine whether an HP Service partition exists on your system,
enter the following command on your physical disk volume (here named
/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0):
idisk -p /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
Example 3-1 shows that you need to create the HP Service Partition
after updating to HP-UX 11i v2.
Example 3-1 idisk Output from Disk Without HP Service Partition
idisk version: 1.31
EFI Primary Header:
Signature = EFI PART
Revision = 0x10000
HeaderSize = 0x5c
HeaderCRC32 = 0x20e10a24
MyLbaLo = 0x1
AlternateLbaLo = 0x43d671f
FirstUsableLbaLo = 0x22
LastUsableLbaLo = 0x43d66fc
Disk GUID = 59609df4-c295-11d7-8001-d6217b60e588
PartitionEntryLbaLo = 0x2
NumberOfPartitionEntries = 0xc
SizeOfPartitionEntry = 0x80
PartitionEntryArrayCRC32 = 0xc0a93cc2
Primary Partition Table (in 512 byte blocks):
Partition 1 (EFI):
Partition Type GUID = c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
Unique Partition GUID = 5960a1be-c295-11d7-8002-d6217b60e588
Starting Lba = 0x22
Ending Lba = 0xfa021
Partition 2 (HP-UX):
Partition Type GUID = 75894c1e-3aeb-11d3-b7c1-7b03a0000000
Unique Partition GUID = 5960a1fa-c295-11d7-8003-d6217b60e588
Starting Lba = 0xfa022
Ending Lba = 0x430e02
Under the “Primary Partition Table (in 512 byte blocks)”
heading only two partitions exist on the system: the EFI boot partition
and the HP-UX partition.