Preparing Clients for Installation

Boot each Series 700 or Series 800 client system that supports network boot either by entering the appropriate command explained in the following pages or by using the Ignite-UX screen. If a client with a known IP address is already running HP-UX, you can use the bootsys command (see “Non-Interactive Installation Using bootsys ”) from the Ignite-UX server to install a specific configuration without further interaction.




	TIP: To interrupt the boot process on any HP computer system, press Esc on the given system.

The next section provides a brief review of the manual boot process. Boot ROM commands for manual booting are explained in the installation guide supplied with the HP-UX OS/OE media:

Installing and Updating HP-UX 10.x, Chapter 3.
HP-UX 11.0 Installation and Update Guide
HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide

If the client cannot find the server to boot from, check these items:

Client is on the same subnet as the server.
Any instl_bootd errors in: /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
The /var/adm/inetd.sec file to make sure that IP address 0.0.0.0 is not being disallowed.
If /etc/services comes from NIS, make sure that the NIS server has instl_boot* entries.

The icons for all clients booted from the Ignite-UX server should now appear on the Ignite-UX client/server screen. If the Ignite-UX server has not been set up completely, or if the client could not obtain enough networking parameters via DHCP, then the client may require interaction on the Ignite-UX client/server screen.

Now that you can view clients on the Ignite-UX client/server screen, you can proceed to Chapter 5.

Preparing Clients for Installation

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