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Ignite-UX Administration Guide: for HP-UX 11i > Chapter 10 Booting and Installing HP-UX on Clients Using the Server

Installation Using bootsys

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Begin your installation process with “Preparing the Client for Installation ”.

You can use bootsys to start a noninteractive system installation on one or more clients without logging onto the client system, as illustrated in Figure 10-1.

Figure 10-1 Noninteractive Installation Using the bootsys Command

Noninteractive Installation Using the bootsys Command

You can invoke bootsys from the command line interface (CLI), or from the Ignite-UX GUI (see “Installation Using the Ignite-UX GUI”).

The bootsys command copies the Ignite-UX kernel and file system from the Ignite-UX server to each client and then sets the system AUTO file in the LIF area of the root disk to automatically boot from this kernel at the next system reboot.

For more information, see bootsys(1M). Common problems using bootsys with Ignite-UX are covered in Appendix A.

IMPORTANT: The bootsys command does not support network interfaces that are grouped using HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA). You must not select an APA group as the interface through which Ignite-UX will communicate with the Ignite-UX server. In these cases select an interface outside the APA group, or break the APA group and use a single ungrouped interface with bootsys (this may require reconfiguring the switch the APA group is connected to.)

Examples

This sample command boots the client system from the Ignite-UX server, boot1, and waits for installation instructions from this server:

bootsys -R release -w boot1

where release is the release that you want to install on the client. For example, B.11.23.

If you have already run an installation session from the Ignite-UX server, issuing bootsys without the -w option results in automatic installation without further intervention.

To automatically install client1 using a different IP address than what is currently assigned and without waiting for Ignite-UX server interaction, use this command:

bootsys -a client1:10.2.3.45

TIP: To prevent a critical client from being inadvertently booted using bootsys, create the file, /.bootsys_block, on the client. For example, you can create this file with:

touch /.bootsys_block

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