Updating SD-UX Before Installing/Updating Software

Before you can update to 10.20, you must extract the new version of SD-UX from the 10.20 tape, CD or software depot from which you plan to update your system.




	CAUTION: Do not attempt to use the 10.01 or 10.10 version of `swinstall` to update the system to 10.20. The update will fail. The `swcluster` command, used to update an NFS Diskless server, will also fail, since it calls `swinstall`.

Procedure

To update SD-UX, you must first load the swgettools utility onto your system, and then use swgettools to get the new version of SD-UX.

The swgettools command needs a temporary directory with at least 11 MB of free space. By default, swgettools will use the /var/tmp directory. If there is not enough space in the temporary directory swgettools will fail.

You can tell swgettools to use a different temporary directory by means of the -t dir_path command-line option. You must do this if you do not have 11 MB free in /var/tmp. Use bdf /var/tmp to determine this.

Loading swgettools

The swgettools utility is shipped in the catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles directory. Depending on whether the 10.20 software is on CD, tape or a remote system in a software depot, use cp, tar, or rcp, respectively, to load swgettools onto your system. Skip to the section “SW-DIST Installation ” below for more examples and other options.

For example, to load swgettools from a local CD-ROM mounted at /SD_CDROM into /var/tmp, enter the following:

cp /SD_CDROM/catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp

Getting the New SD-UX Tools

Now use swgettools to update SD-UX. For example:

/var/tmp/swgettools -s /SD_CDROM

The expression -s /SD_CDROM indicates a CD-ROM drive mounted at /SD_CDROM.

Further examples are in the next section. After you have updated SD-UX, you can use swinstall to update your system to HP-UX 10.20.




	CAUTION: Do not reboot your system after running swgettools and before you run `swinstall` or `swcluster` to update HP-UX. If you do reboot, you must run `swgettools` again before updating HP-UX.

SW-DIST Installation

From CD-ROM

To install the new SW-DIST product from CD-ROM at /SD_CDROM, enter the following:

cp /SD_CDROM/catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp
 
/var/tmp/swgettools -s /SD_CDROM

From Tape

To install the new SW-DIST product from tape at /dev/rmt/0m, enter the following:

cd /var/tmp
 
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0m catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools
 
cp /var/tmp/catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools /var/tmp/swgettools
 
rm -rf /var/tmp/catalog
 
/var/tmp/swgettools -s /dev/rmt/0m

From Remote Depot

To install the new SW-DIST from a remote depot on system swperf at /var/spool/sw, enter the following:

rcp swperf:/var/spool/sw/catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles/swgettools  /var/tmp
 
/var/tmp/swgettools -s swperf:/var/spool/sw

Updating SD-UX Without Root Access to the Remote Depot

Option 1:

If you are a system administrator, you can instruct your users to use this procedure or Option 2 (below) for more restricted access, if you do not want to grant the users rcp (.rhosts) access as root to the server.

Copy the swgettools script file (in the catalog/SW-DIST/pfiles directory) and the swagent.Z file (in the catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles directory) from the tape or CD to a location that your users have FTP access to.
Tell the user to do the following:
1. FTP the two files into the /var/tmp directory on the system to be updated.
2. Use chmod +x to make the /var/tmp/swgettools script executable.
3. Run swgettools and specify the remote depot location with the -s option (and, if necessary, -t to specify a temporary directory other than /var/tmp).

Option 2:

This option assumes your users will be running swgettools specifying a source depot on a remote server, and you do not want to grant them rcp (.rhosts) access as root to the server.

Users can use the SD-UX swcopy command to copy the SW-GETTOOLS product from a registered remote source depot to a local depot prior to extracting the files. The remote source depot can be either a CD-ROM or a disk depot.

To copy the SW-GETTOOLS product from the remote CD-ROM depot located at swperf:/var/spool/sw to a local depot in /tmp/depot:

swcopy -s swperf:/SD_CDROM SW-GETTOOLS @ /tmp/depot

Then copy the swgettools script and the swagent.Z file to the /var/tmp directory:

cp /tmp/depot/catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles/sw* /var/tmp

If needed, run chmod +x /var/tmp/swgettools. Then, execute the swgettools script specifying the remote depot to update the SW-DIST product from the following:

/var/tmp/swgettools -s swperf:/SD_CDROM




	NOTE: If you will be using a temporary directory other then `/var/tmp`, then `cp` the `swgettools` script and the `swagent.Z` file to the temporary directory you will be using, and specify its location on the `swgettools` command line using the `-t` option.

Example:

cp /tmp/depot/catalog/SW-GETTOOLS/pfiles/sw* /usr/tmp
 
/usr/tmp/swgettools -s swperf:/SD_CDROM -t /usr/tmp

For More Information

Consult the swgettools(1M) man page (on a 10.20 system) or the manual Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX for assistance with the following:

If you encounter an error during the execution of the swgettools script. OR
If you want to see examples of using swgettools with other types of media.