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Updating HP-UX
Updating SD-UX Before Installing/Updating Software
Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software
Before you can update to 10.20, you must extract the new version of
SD-UX from the 10.20 CD or software depot from which you plan to
update your system.
CAUTION Do not attempt to use the 10.01 or 10.10 version of swinstall to update
the system to 10.20. The update will fail. The swcluster command,
used to update an NFS Diskless server, will also fail, since it calls
swinstall.
Procedure To update SD-UX, you must first load the swgettools utility onto your
system, and then use swgettools to get the new version of SD-UX.
The swgettools command needs a temporary directory with at least 11
MB of free space. By default, swgettools will use the /var/tmp
directory. If there is not enough space in the temporary directory
swgettools will fail.
You can tell swgettools to use a different temporary directory by
means of the -t dir_path command-line option. You must do this if you
do not have 11 MB free in /var/tmp. Use bdf /var/tmp to determine
this.
Loading swgettools The swgettools utility is shipped in the catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles
directory. Depending on whether the 10.20 software is on CD or a remote
system in a software depot, use cp, tar, or rcp, respectively, to load
swgettools onto your system. Skip to the section “SW-DIST
Installation” below for more examples and other options.
For example, to load swgettools from a local CD-ROM mounted at
/SD_CDROM into /var/tmp, enter the following:
cp /SD_CDROM/catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp
Getting the New SD-UX
Tools
Now use swgettools to update SD-UX. For example:
/var/tmp/swgettools -s /SD_CDROM
The expression -s /SD_CDROM indicates a CD-ROM drive mounted at
/SD_CDROM.