Updating a System

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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.

Updating a System

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