Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9

Chapter 5

Installing HP-UX DCE 1.9

Loading HP-UX DCE Software in a Network Source Area

Before installation of HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 software on a network, the software typically is transferred

from the media on which it was shipped to a network source area, or depot. This section tells how to perform

this transfer using the swcopy tool.

Before loading HP-UX DCE, you should be aware of the following:

• If you are installing HP-UX DCE 1.9 on a single system, and your system has access to a media device,

you can choose to install software directly from media. If you want to do this, proceed to “Installing

Software” on page 45.

• If your software was shipped with a codeword certiﬁcate, you must obtain a codeword from

Hewlett-Packard before you load the software into a depot. To obtain a codeword, follow the instructions

on the codeword certiﬁcate that was shipped with the CD-ROM disk.

Software Loading Procedure

This section outlines the steps you must follow to load HP-UX DCE 1.9 software into a network source area

using the swcopy graphical or textual user interface.

See Managing HP-UX Software With SD-UX, as well as the swcopy (1M) manpage, for detailed information

on the general process of creating a network source area, and on the swcopy command-line interface. Also, the

swcopy graphical user interface has general and context sensitive help if you need assistance in making

selections, or in entering appropriate values.

Perform the following steps to load HP-UX DCE 1.9 software into a network source area:

1. Load media into the drive.

2. Log in as root.

3. Start /usr/sbin/swcopy.

4. Specify the target depot path in the Select Target Depot Path popup window.

NOTE If you are performing this install as a step in migrating a server system from a previous

version of HP-UX DCE, create a single depot containing the HP-UX DCE 1.9 software and

the DCE client software that is bundled with HP-UX 11i v2. See Chapter 3, “Migrating to

HP-UX DCE 1.9,” on page 25 for information on migrating from a previous HP-UX DCE

version. The target depot path is the pathname to the directory where you want the HP-UX

DCE software to be loaded. As a general rule, you should accept the HP-UX default

/var/spool/sw.

5. Specify the source hostname and source depot path in the Specify Source popup window.

The source hostname is the name of the machine on which the media device is mounted; the source depot

path is the device pathname.

When you have speciﬁed these ﬁelds, a list of the products and bundles available in that source depot (i.e.,

on the media) is displayed in the Software Selection window.

6. Select the DCE products to load.

After you select (double-click on) the DCE bundle, a list of the DCE products is displayed. Mark all the

listed DCE products for loading.