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Installing and Updating HP-UX
HP 9000 Series 300/400
Fli;- HEWLETT
a:~ PACKARD
HP Part No. B1862-90002
Printed in USA January 1991
E0191
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Contents
1. Where to Begin
2. Concepts
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
HP-UX During Normal Operation. 2-2
Booting From Disk 2-3
Installing HP -UX . . . 2-4
Updating HP -UX . . . 2-6
The Update Program 2-7
Modifying HP -UX 2-8
3. Planning What Software to Load on Your System
Selectively Loading Software . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Partition and Fileset Descriptions . . . . . . . 3-2
Installing NetLS (Network License System) Filesets 3-21
For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
4. Installing HP-UX
Before You Install ... 4-1
Overview of Installing . . . . . 4-3
Step 1: Getting Your System Ready 4-4
Step 2: Inserting the Release 8.0 HP- UX Install Media 4-5
Step 3: Loading the Installation Software 4-6
Step 4: Interpreting the Welcome Screen 4-9
Tips on Using Menus . . . . . . 4-9
Step 5: Select the Destination Device 4-10
Selecting the Destination. . . . . 4-10
The Destination Disk Is Not Listed 4-11
Installing onto a Used Disk. . . . 4-12
Step 6: Continue the Program or Alter Parameters 4-13
Contents-1
CONTINUE installation process .. . 4-13
Change DESTINATION device .. . 4-14
Change FILESYSTEM parameters .. . 4-14
Step 7: Verifying Swap Space . . . . . 4-15
Step 8: Verifying the Destination Device 4-17
Step 9: Initializing the Destination Disk 4-18
If You Have a SCSI Disk. . . . . . . 4-18
If You Have a Non-SCSI Disk ... 4-18
Step 10: Loading Partitions Containing Filesets . 4-20
Step 11: Congratulations! You Installed HP- UX 4-27
After Installing HP -UX . . . . . . . 4-27
Removing Unwanted Software Using rmfn 4-29
Important Points 4-29
How to Use rmfn . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
5. Updating HP-UX
New Features in 8.0 Update 5-3
Interactive Update 5-4
Non-interactive Update 5-4
If Problems Occur During an Interactive Update ... 5-5
If Problems Occur During a Non-interactive Update ... 5-5
Before Running Update . . . . . 5-6
Before All Updates . . . . . . . 5-6
See associated documentation. 5-6
If you're using an NFS Server ... 5-6
Clean up files on root disk. . . . 5-6
Check that your system has adequate disk space. 5-8
Make sure you can recover your system. . . . 5-8
If You are Updating from Tape... . . . . . 5-9
If You Are Updating from a Network Server .. . 5-9
If you are updating from CD-ROM .. . 5-9
If You are Updating a Cluster... ... . 5-10
Check file systems to be mounted . . . . . 5-10
If you are updating the operating system ... 5-11
If updating from CD-ROM, mount the CD-ROM drive. 5-12
Establish adequate swap space for the update process. 5-12
More Tips on Updating 5-13
Where to Go Next ... 5-13
Contents-2
Running the Update Program 5-14
Procedure . . . . . . . . 5-14
If You Need to Free Up Disk Space 5-30
Dealing with Minimum Free Space Requirements 5-30
Dealing with Insufficient Disk Space . . . . . . 5-31
How to Free Disk Space . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31
De-select Filesets or Remove Files Interactively 5-31
Mount Another File System 5-32
Create Symbolic Links . . . . 5-32
Getting More Information . . . 5-33
Tasks to Perform after the Update 5-34
Checking the update.log File 5-36
A Guide to Troubleshooting . . . 5-38
6. Setting Up a Network Server to Update HP-UX
Overview of the netdist Program . . . . . . . 6-1
Before Setting Up a Network Distribution Server 6-2
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . 6-2
Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Setting Up a Network Distribution Server 6-4
Shutting Down the Network Distribution Server 6-7
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Adding and Updating Filesets on the Network Distribution Server 6-8
Prerequisite . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Adding New Filesets to an Existing Server 6-8
Updating Existing Filesets on the Server . 6-8
Checking the netdist.log File . . . . . . . 6-9
Finding Out What Filesets Are Available to Network Update. 6-11
Checking the MAIN.pkg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Checking Dependencies between Filesets . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Modifying What Filesets are Available to Requesting Systems 6-12
Contents-3
A. Product to Fileset Mapping
Product/Fileset Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-l
HP-UX 02-User Runtime 8300/400 HP-UX 32-User Runtime
8300/400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
HP-UX/X.258300/400 . . . . . . . . A-5
AN8I/C Compiler 8300/400 . . . . . . A-6
C/AN81 C Developer's Bundle 8300/400 . A-7
Developer's Toolkit 8300/400 . A-8
Fortran 8300/400 . . . . . A-9
Pascal 8300/400 . . . . . A-9
HP GK8 8300/400 . . . . A-9
Japanese NL I/O 8300/400 . A-lO
8implified Chinese NL I/O 8300/400 A-lO
Traditional Chinese NL I/O 8300/400 A-ll
Korean NL I/O 8300/400 . . . . . A-ll
HP Windows/9000 8300/400 . . . . A-l2
Network 8ervices 8300/400. . . . . A-l2
Terminal 8ession Manager 8300/400 . A-l3
General Programming Tools 8300/400 A-l3
Index
Contents-4
Figures
2-1. The HP-UX Kernel Isolates the User From the Hardware 2-2
2-2. Booting From Disk: The Kernel Is Loaded into Memory From
the System Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
2-3. Installing HP-UX: Copying Files From Tape or CD-ROM to
the System Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
2-4. Updating HP-UX: Copying Newest Version of Files From Tape
or CD-ROM to the System Disk 2-6
4-1. rmfn: "Delete Partitions" Screen .". . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
Tables
1-1. Where to Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
3-1. DIAGNOSTICS Partition - Fileset Descriptions. 3-3
3-2. GRAPHICS Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-4
3-3. NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORT Partition - Fileset
Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
3-4. NETWORKING Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-7
3-5. NL (NATIVE LANGUAGE) I/O Partition - Fileset
Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
3-6. OS-ADMIN Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-10
3-7. OS-CORE Partition - Fileset Descriptions . 3-11
3-8. OS-FEATURES Partition - Fileset Descriptions. 3-12
3-9. PROG-LANGUAGES Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-14
3-10. REFERENCE-DOC Partition - Fileset Description 3-15
3-11. SHARED-LIBS Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-18
3-12. WINDOWS Partition - Fileset Descriptions 3-19
Contents-5
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1
Where to Begin
This manual explains how to install and update on Hewlett-Packard Series
300/400 computer systems. Table 1-1 gets you started.
Table 1