Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.01)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars

Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx with Update-UX (PA-RISC only)

Chapter 4

Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx with Update-UX (PA-RISC

only)

This section describes how to update an existing A.03.xx PA-RISC vPars environment to the latest A.04.xx

PA-RISC vPars environment. The advantages of using this process are (1) you can update both OE and vPars

versions simultaneously, so there are fewer reboots, and (2) although you must still reboot the nPartition, you

can perform these steps within a vPars environment; you do not need to boot the system into standalone

mode. However, if you are not familiar with Update-UX, you can continue to use the swinstall methods (see

the links in the next paragraph).

Note that this process works only using Update-UX and a corresponding Ignite-UX depot; it does not work by

directly using the OE and vPars media. If you wish to install directly from media, you should use the

instructions from “Installing vPars Using Ignite-UX (PA-RISC)” on page 74 or “Installing vPars Using

Software Distributor (PA-RISC or Integrity)” on page 79.

NOTE Using Update-UX

Update-UX allows for both the OE and vPars bundles to be updated in the same session. Note

that the OE and vPars bundles need to be in the same source depot. See the ITRC

Ignite-UX cookbook for information on how to setup your Ignite-UX server.

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, please 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