HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)

4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading
Servers with vPars
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars
• “Bundle Names” (page 70)
• Ignite-UX. See “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” (page 73)
• “Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I” (page 74)
• Installing or Updating vPars
— “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC” (page 111)
— “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity” (page 113)
— “Installing vPars with Software Distributor ” (page 115)
— “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx” (page 75)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05)
Environment” (page 80)
— “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx and A.05.xx)
Environment” (page 93)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.05.xx” (page 100)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx” (page 100)
— “Updating vPars A.03.xx to vPars A.03.05” (page 103)
— “Updating from vPars (A.02.xx or A.03.xx) to A.03.xx ” (page 105)
• Upgrading Server Chipsets
• “Removing the vPars Product” (page 116)
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install
vPars
Notes
Be sure you understand vPars before attempting the updates and installations. See Chapter 2:
“How vPars and its Components Work ” (page 29) and Chapter 3: “Planning Your System for
Virtual Partitions” (page 49).
Booting from HP-UX Install Media (Integrity only) Under vPars A.05.02 and later, the vPars
Monitor supports booting an install kernel from CD or DVD media with the vparload -p
partition_name -D disk_index command. For details, see “Monitor: Using Monitor
Commands” (page 127).
Related Information For information on the installation of HP-UX and what is supported for
your HP-UX version, see the applicable HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide and the HP-UX
11i Release Notes for your OS version.
For information on swinstall and software depots, see the manual "Software Distributor
Administration Guide for HP-UX".
For more information on booting and boot devices on PA-RISC systems, see also the paper titled
Booting, Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from DVD / CDROM / TAPE /
Network available at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/vse.html#Virtual%20Partitions
For information on using the vPars commands, see the following sections in the chapter Monitor
and Shell Commands:
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