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Instant Ignition

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In the HP-UX 9.x releases, Instant Ignition provided functionality for system preconfiguration and a variety of enhancements to the user interface. Some of these features were available in the core HP-UX product. Others were part of the Ignition Plus ISU which was loaded with HP-UX on factory-installed Series 700 systems. These features included screens to help configure the system during initial boot-up, modules which summarized boot-time information into a brief checklist, localized welcome screens, productivity tools, a console window, and various HP VUE icons and actions.

Beginning with HP-UX 10.01, the Ignition Plus ISU has been obsoleted along with some of the features of Instant Ignition that were once part of core HP-UX. Whether you manually install 10.01, order 10.01 installed at the factory, or upgrade to 10.01 from 9.x, the following features will no longer be part of your system:

  • UpdateFilesets, RemoveFilesets, and Updist icons/actions.

    Update and rmfn functionality have been superseded by SD.

  • HaltSystem, RebootSystem, and SingleUserMode icons/actions.

    These three actions have been replaced by a single action, ShutdownSystem, which calls the shutdown dialog from SAM.

  • System_Info toolbox.

    Information about the products installed on your system can now be found using the SD command swlist.

  • Peripherals icon/action.

    The peripherals on your system can be identified using SAM.

  • Ignition script configure.sh.

    At 9.x, you needed to run a script to make a manually installed system look like one that had been "ignited" at the factory. At 10.0, this script is not necessary because manually installed and factory-installed systems look identical (except for the system language variable on systems ignited with a non-English HP-UX bundle).

  • Console window.

    Although the console window is no longer provided as a default part of the HP VUE environment, one can be created easily using the Console command under the Utilities toolbox.

  • Fun and Games directory.

    The Fun and Games directory and all of the applications it contains (Flip, Hextris, Mines, XPilot, Xeyes, and ScrollBar) are not included in 10.01 and are removed when a 9.x system is upgraded to 10.01. However, the directory and any user-created action icons within the directory will remain, but be moved to the appropriate 10.01 location so they appear correctly in the upgraded HP VUE.

    You can upgrade without losing the Fun and Games applications by following the steps shown below, but it is important that you remember that these applications are not supported on HP-UX 10.01 and have not been tested.

    • Login as root and enter:

      cat /etc/filesets/I+FUN-GAMES | cpio -ocv > /usr/contrib/fungames
    • Perform the upgrade including transition links (default).

    • As root, enter:

      cpio -icdumvxl %< /usr/contrib/fungames
    • Execute the ReloadActions action under the System_Admin toolbox.

The Series 700 Office Tools (Datebook, the xhpcalc calculator, the xcal calendar, and the xdialog utility) are included with 10.01, but they will not be supported in future releases. Although these tools will continue to run on future 10.x releases, they will not be included with the HP-UX product, nor will they be available elsewhere. These tools will be replaced by applications offering similar functionality.

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