Chapter 3 Updating HP-UX

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Updating your system from the existing HP-UX 10.0x, to HP-UX 10.20 releases involves using swinstall and other SD-UX tools with a standard source, such as a network server 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 10.0x. For upgrading your 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, you will have to update your system first to HP-UX 10.01.
It is highly recommended that you do a system backup before starting to do an update.

If you are updating from HP-UX 10.10 or earlier, you will have to first update SD-UX (the set of tools that includes swinstall), using swgettools, before you can run swinstall.




	CAUTION: Executing `swinstall` to update from 10.0, 10.01, or 10.10 to 10.20 will not succeed unless you first obtain and execute the `swgettools` command found on the 10.20 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.

If you already have HP-UX 10.20 via Instant Ignition or the cold install procedures in Chapter 2 “Installing HP-UX ” go to “Updating HP-UX Software ”, in this chapter.
If you are doing an OS update from a patched version of HP-UX 10.x, after updating, you will need to remove old patches using the cleanup tool. See the note at the end of the update procedure.

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