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  • Your task is nearly complete. If you cold-installed to enable a hardware upgrade, proceed with the hardware phase of the upgrade. Ask your HP Customer Engineer for more information.

  • To potentially improve performance, run sam as root and remove any unneeded network drivers. For information on network drivers, see the HP-UX 11i v1 Release Notes, at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11i/index.html. For help using sam, see its Help screens or the Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators manual.

How to Retrieve Information After Cold-Installing

After completing the cold-install, you can retrieve the information you had previously saved onto another system. Here are some tips:

Create a New Directory for Root Users

Consider creating a root home directory that is not /. This keeps the user root dot files out of the / directory. Make sure it is on the root volume by not locating it under the mount point of the file system. A good name to uses /homeroot (not /home/root) as /home is often a mount point. This is especially important if you are using LVM or VxVM and /home is a separate volume.

  1. From the CDE login screen, select Options -> Command Line Login and login as root.

  2. Except on trusted systems, edit /etc/passwd to change the home directory from root to /homeroot and save it.

  3. Create the /homeroot directory:

    mkdir /homeroot

  4. Move root’s personal files (files beginning with . ) to /homeroot:

    ls -a | grep “^\.” | grep -v “^\.$” | grep -v “^\.\.$” | \
    cpio -pdmv /homeroot

  5. Exit and log in again as root.

Recover Files

Recover all the customized and personal files that you saved previously by merging them manually. For example, do not overwrite /etc/passwd with your old version. Instead, either paste in entries from your old files or merge the old information into the new files.

Restore /home

If you had a local home directory, you can restore it as follows:

  • For instance, if you copied it to, /backup/moe/home, enter these commands:

    cd /backup/moe/home
    find . -depth | cpio -pdm /moe/home

  • If you backed it up to tape with fbackup, enter:

    frecover -x -i /moe/home -v

Restore Other Files

Carefully use the same techniques to restore other files and directories, such as /usr, /local and /opt. For help in importing entire volume groups, see either the Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators or the Managing Superdome Complexes.

The commands above will not write over newer files, so your new operating system and any files you update are well protected.

Verify Your Installation

After Ignite-UX has finished installing HP-UX 11i v1 and all applications associated with your selected Operating Environment, you will need to verify that no errors occurred during the installation. For more details, see Chapter 7 “Verifying System Migration”



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