HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

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 74)
• Ignite-UX. See “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” (page 77)
• “Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I” (page 78)
• Installing or Updating vPars
— “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC” (page 118)
— “Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity” (page 120)
— “Installing vPars with Software Distributor ” (page 122)
— “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx” (page 80)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05)
Environment” (page 85)
— “Migrating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars (A.03.05, A.04.02
or later, A.05.03)” (page 98)
— “Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx and A.05.xx)
Environment” (page 100)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.05.xx” (page 107)
— “Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx” (page 107)
— “Updating vPars A.03.xx to vPars A.03.05” (page 110)
— “Updating from vPars (A.02.xx or A.03.xx) to A.03.xx ” (page 112)
• Upgrading Server Chipsets
• “Removing the vPars Product” (page 123)
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 27) and Chapter 3: “Planning Your System for
Virtual Partitions” (page 47).
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 “vPars Monitor: Using vPars
Monitor Commands” (page 135).
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
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