Installing HP-UX 11.0 and Updating HP-UX 10.x to 11.0 HP 9000 Computers Edition 1

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Updating an Existing Operating System and Software
Updating a System
Overview.
NOTE As of the HP-UX 11.0 release, Multi-Stream support has been added
which enables SD-UX to store products and filesets of more than one
bit-type in a single SD-UX depot, manage these software collections, and
install them to systems.
For information on special procedures for 32-bit and 64-bit updates and
supported hardware, see “Updating to HP-UX 11.0” in this chapter.
Updating your system from the existing HP-UX 10.x, to another version
of HP-UX involves using swinstall and other SD-UX tools with a
standard source, such as a network server, tape, or CD-ROM, to install
the appropriate bundles, products, or filesets.
Upgrading means using a suite of tools (version 9.U3 of the Upgrade
tools) to update your system from HP-UX 9.0x to 10.0. It may also
involve determining hardware compatibility (see “Updating to HP-UX
11.0”). For upgrading your 9.0x system, refer to the manual Upgrading
from HP-UX 9.x to 10.x.
• If you plan to update from HP-UX 10.0 to 10.20 or later, you will have
to update your system first to HP-UX 10.01 or 10.10.
CAUTION Executing swinstall to update from 10.01 or later will not succeed
unless you first obtain and execute the swgettools command found on
the new media. This will update the SD-UX commands. Failure to
update SD-UX from the old version will result in error messages and
failure of the update process.
The instructions for using swgettools are in “Updating SD-UX Before
Installing/Updating Software”, in this chapter.
• It is highly recommended that you do a system backup before starting
to do an update.
• If you already have the new HP-UX on your root disk, via Instant
Ignition or an installation, and you want to update applications, go to
“Updating HP-UX Software”, in this chapter.