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Updating HP-UX
3 Updating HP-UX
Updating your system from the existing HP-UX 10.0x, to HP-UX 10.20
releases involves using swinstall and other SD-UX tools with a
standard source, such as a network server or CD-ROM, to install the
appropriate bundles, products, or filesets.
Upgrading means using a suite of tools (version 9.U3 of the Upgrade
tools) to update your system from HP-UX 9.0x to 10.0x. For upgrading
your system, refer to the manual Upgrading from HP-UX 9.x to 10.x.
• If you plan to update from HP-UX 10.0 to 10.20, you will have to
update your system first to HP-UX 10.01.
• It is highly recommended that you do a system backup before starting
to do an update.
• If you are updating from HP-UX 10.10 or earlier, you will have to first
update SD-UX (the set of tools that includes swinstall), using
swgettools, before you can run swinstall.
CAUTION Executing swinstall to update from 10.0, 10.01, or 10.10 to 10.20 will
not succeed unless you first obtain and execute the swgettools
command found on the 10.20 media. This will update the SD-UX
commands. Failure to update SD-UX from the old version will result in
error messages and failure of the update process.
The instructions for using swgettools are in “Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software”, in this chapter.
• If you already have HP-UX 10.20 via Instant Ignition or the cold
install procedures in Chapter 2, “Installing HP-UX,” go to “Updating
HP-UX Software”, in this chapter.
• If you are doing an OS update from a patched version of HP-UX 10.x,
after updating, you will need to remove old patches using the
cleanup tool. See the note at the end of the update procedure.