HP-UX

Hello All,

I need to bring down our old 9000 series d350, but my supervisor wants an ignite backup created. I cannot find ignite in the usual places (/opt/ignite) nor can I find it in swlist. As far as I can tell the cd's are long gone.

Is there anywhere else I could look for ignite being installed? Anyone willing to part with some bandwidth and cd images?

BTW, I'm not superfamiliar with HP-UX. I usually use bsd, but occassionally support SCO. Today was the first time touching this ancient risc system. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Apologies if this thread is not placed correctly. . . it's been hE11 around here.

Ignite is found on the operating environment CDs for HP-UX 11i, not sure about 10.20. When you say that the CDs are gone, hopefully you aren't talking about your backup media.

Do you have a Ignite-UX server on your network?

Ignite-UX is capable of installing multiple versions of HP-UX from a single Ignite-UX server.
If you are only interested in installing systems to one release of HP-UX, then just download
the Ignite-UX bits for that HP-UX release. If you want to be able to install all of the supported
HP-UX releases, then choose the download for "All supported HP-UX Versions" from the web
site.
The C.6.x.x release of Ignite-UX is a super-set of previous releases. One major enhancement
introduced with this release is that the Ignite kernel and HP-UX mini-system used for
installation is matched with the release being installed. This allows any 11.00, 11.11, 11.22 or
11.23 server to be used to install any 11.00, 11.11, 11.22, or 11.23 target.
Older versions of Ignite-UX supported both 10.x and 11.x servers. The A.x versions were
intended for 10.x Ignite-UX servers installing 10.x targets. The B.x versions were (and
continue to be) intended for 11.X Ignite-UX servers installing 11.x and 10.x targets. The A.x
versions have been discontinued. The last release was A.3.7.95 released in June of 2002 and
is no longer supported. The final release to support 10.20 targets is B.5.4 released in July of
2004.

. . . is gone. I am only interested in doing a final backup of this individual server. It is the only HP-ux system here. I have plenty of backups, and backup media, but this server has been out of production since 2006 and is kept running for the occasional lookup. My supervisor wants to stop paying support fees so we can re appropriate the costs other places. But in the event we need it back, we need a bootable backup.

According to HP support, the ignite downloadable is only for 11.00 and up. I wish the media was arround, because I'd install it off of there, but my searching around the internet, especially hidden ftp servers, has been to no avail.

I will go ahead and look for the July 2004 version mentioned by Adam. I was just hoping someone had it where I could download it easily.

Thanks

. . . at a local computer reclamation warehouse. . . Have ignite installed. . . mounted cdrom, used the SAM to install ignite for 10.20.

New wrinkle. . . cd'd to /opt/ignite/bin and ran "make_recovery -A -d /dev/rmt/0mn." Came up with the response, "sh: make_recovery: not found"

Here are the questions:

Do i actually have ignite installed now?
If I do, do I need to alter paths? or something?
Am I running the correct command for a bootable backup?
How do I actually determine whether or not /dev/rmt/0mn is my tape drive?
Is it even necessary to define my tape drive?

Just a little bit more assistance and I can get this completed!

Thanks.

. . . .

#PATH=$PATH:/opt/ignite/bin
#export PATH
#make_recovery . . .

What I thought it was but, I'm used to newer versions of Unix. Therefore, it's the last thing I think about.

Thanks for the Assists!