HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)
For information on the typical time needed to update the OS version, see the HP-UX 11i v2
Installation and Update Guide.
CAUTION:
Using Update-UX Update-UX allows for both the OE and vPars bundles to be updated in the
same session. To simultaneously update both the OE and vPars bundles in the same session,
they both must be in the same source depot.
If you update from a depot which does not contain the vPars bundle, your disk will no longer
boot in vPars mode. See the Ignite-UX Administration Guide and Using Golden Images with Virtual
Partitions for information on how to setup your Ignite-UX server.
NOTE: Before using the Update-UX command, make sure you have the latest Update-UX
bundle installed for each virtual partition:
# swinstall -s source_depot Update-UX
In the example below, the Update-UX command syntax is
# update-ux -s source_depot OE_bundle vPars_bundle
For example, the command line used in this section is
# update-ux -s depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD HPUX11i-OE-Ent T1335BC
where:
• depot1:/release/0505.1123/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD is the source depot
• HPUX11i-OE-Ent is the OE bundle
• T1335BC is the vPars bundle
For more information on using Update-UX, see the HP-UX 11.23 Installation and Update Guide.
The Steps
The following steps should be done from the console:
1. Make sure that all the virtual partitions are up. You can check this with
vparstatus. Example:
keira1# vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
2. Record the current autoboot and autosearch settings of all the virtual partitions so that you
can change back to these settings later. To find the current settings, use
vparstatus. Example:
keira1 # vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
keira1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
keira3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
3. Turn autoboot and autosearch settings off using vparmodify for all the virtual
partitions. Example:
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B manual
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira1 -B nosearch
keira1 # vparmodify -p keira2 -B manual
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx 101