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

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HP-UX System Recovery

System Recovery: Creating a Bootable Recovery Tape

Note that the install will proceed according to how the variables

run_ui and control_from_server are set in the INSTALLFS and

in the conﬁg ﬁles.

Creating a fully self-contained tape that does not require the use of an

Ignite-UX server involves copying a depot or system archive to the tape

and specifying a conﬁg ﬁle representing the archive or depot.

Recovery Procedure To recover a failed system disk or volume group, you would do the

following:

1. Mount the System Recovery tape on the tape drive

2. Boot the system

3. Interrupt the boot sequence to redirect it to the tape drive

4. Indicate no interaction with ISL.

5. Allow the system to complete the process.

NOTE If the recovery process encounters a conﬁguration change/error, it goes

into the interactive mode, and displays the Ignite-UX welcome screen

with the following options:

[ Install HP-UX ]

[ Run a Recovery Shell ]

[ Advanced Options ]

[Reboot] [Help]

At this point, select the Install HP-UX option. (You are installing from

the customized media). Select Advanced Installation (recommended

for disk and ﬁlesystem management) Change your conﬁgurations and

continue. Selecting disks should be done with care, as any existing data

on the disks will then be lost.

The system recovery tape can also be used to duplicate software on your

system onto another system, with some manual conﬁgurations after the

software has been installed.

For More Examples

and Information

See the man page make_medialif(1M) for details on using the options,

and the syntax for doing so.