Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i (B3921-90079, October 2013)

Figure 40 Noninteractive Installation Using the bootsys Command
Welcome
to
Ignite-UX
bootsys for non-interactive
installations
IP1 IP2
Client 1
Client 2
Depots
Config
files
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Ignite-UX Server
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You can invoke bootsys from the command line interface (CLI), or from the Ignite-UX GUI (see
“Installation Using the Ignite-UX GUI” (page 112)).
The bootsys command copies the Ignite-UX kernel and file system from the Ignite-UX server to
each client and then sets the system AUTO file in the LIF area of the root disk to automatically boot
from this kernel at the next system reboot.
For more information, see bootsys(1M). Common problems using bootsys with Ignite-UX are
covered in Appendix A (page 224).
IMPORTANT: The bootsys command does not support network interfaces that are grouped
using HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA). You must not select an APA group as the interface through
which Ignite-UX will communicate with the Ignite-UX server. In these cases select an interface outside
the APA group, or break the APA group and use a single ungrouped interface with bootsys (this
may require reconfiguring the switch the APA group is connected to.)
Examples
This sample command boots the client system from the Ignite-UX server, boot1, and waits for
installation instructions from this server:
bootsys -R release -w boot1
where release is the release that you want to install on the client. For example, B.11.23.
If you have already run an installation session from the Ignite-UX server, issuing bootsys without
the -w option results in automatic installation without further intervention.
To automatically install client1 using a different IP address than what is currently assigned and
without waiting for Ignite-UX server interaction, use this command:
bootsys -a client1:10.2.3.45
TIP: To prevent a critical client from being inadvertently booted using bootsys, create the file,
/.bootsys_block, on the client. For example, you can create this file with:
touch /.bootsys_block
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