HP-UX 9.x/8.x installation from scratch

Prerequisites

• Quantum PD425S
• Quantum LPS525S
• Quantum PD1050S
• Micropolis 1588[T], 660MB
• Micropolis 1528, 1.4GB
• Micropolis 1924, largeish ?
• Seagate ST3600N, 525MB
• HP C3010
• HP C2247, 1GB
• HP C2235, 420MB (web), (local)

• IBM/Quantum Fireball 1280
• IBM DPES 31080
• Seagate ST11200N

Base system

From tape

From CD

1. Straightforward. Insert Install CD, cycle power. During startup press ESC to allow boot media select.
   
   • On 300/400 series:
     (soon to come)
   • On 700/800 series:
     A bootable device list appears.
     On some models a BOOT_ADMIN console will allow further actions.
     Anyway,

      
     boot scsi.x 
     

     where x is the CD's SCSI address.
   Answer the questions and accept the defaults. One may alter some of the root filesystem parameters, e.g. increase swap space beyond the proposed value (but not larger than 128MB if LaserROM should coexist on the same 1GB disk).
   Leave/set date below Y2K.
2. On request (update): insert Core OS CD and proceed. For external CD-ROM drives this might involve power cycling.
   If this does not work (as experienced e.g. with series 400 systems):
   1. press Reset, reboot and press ESC to allow selection of a minimal system (SYSHPUX).
   2. Then

       
      mount /dev/bsrc /UPDATE_CDROM; rm /update.lock; /etc/update 
      

   Accept proposed default terminal.
3. In the presented menu choose Change Source/Destination and select CD-ROM, no password. Press Done/F4
4. In the presented menu choose installation method. In my experience one may Select all filesets and install just everything (ca. 160 MB)
5. Apply Y2K patches (HP-UX 9.1 for series 300/400 only):
   Insert CD, power cycle CD-ROM drive and

    
   mount /dev/bsrc /UPDATE_CDROM; rm /update.lock; /etc/update 
   

   If the mount fails, reboot and repeat.
   Alternative mount method:

    
   mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/cEd3s0 /UPDATE_CDROM         # CD with SCSI ID=3 
   rm /update.lock; /etc/update                           # or use VUE toolbox, if active 
   

   In the presented menu change installation source to CD-ROM and select/install all filesets.
6. If available, Tools and Languages (C,Pascal,FORTRAN):
   reboot with CD inserted, (alternatively try switch off/on CD drive)
   mount /dev/bsrc /UPDATE_CDROM; rm /update.lock; /etc/update
   or

    
   mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/cEd3s0 /UPDATE_CDROM         # CD with SCSI ID=3 
   rm /update.lock; /etc/update                           # or use VUE toolbox, if active 
   

   Select/install all filesets, may skip NLS stuff
7. On request and if the machine is already connected to a network one may configure it already during installation. Just answer the questions on
   network mask (e.g. 255.255.255.0)
   and Gateway address (e.g. 192.168.1.1 for a router), a (dummy) name must also be given.
8. After (root) login start multi-user level, includes starting VUE:

    
   init 3 
   

9. Note that if one chooses to leave the date as is, to avoid Y2K issues, one might have to fix SAM's other date related problems.

Additional Software

Patches

mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/c201d3s0   # SCSI ID=3 for an HP 9000/715

 
sh PHCO_7747 # unpack, yields PHCO_7747.updt, PHCO_7747.text  
/etc/update  # change source: from tape, enter PHCO_7747.updt 

Software from a netdist server

/etc/update                          # gives you a menu
Change Source or Destination         # choose this
From Netdist Server to Local System  # choose this

LaserROM documentation

1. mount the CD

    
   mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/cEd3s0   /cdrom # example for series 400: CD with SCSI ID=3  
   mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/c201d3s0 /cdrom # example for a 9000/715: CD with SCSI ID=3  
   

   Note that the script(s) on the CD assume filenames to be uppercase (for compatibility with Billyware PCs). So if the CD is mounted on a remote non-HP-UX server and exported to the installing machine sth like

    
   mount -v'cdrfs' -r -o upcase /dev/cd0 /cdrom   # AIX example, force uppercase 
   

   might be necessary.
2. follow the instructions in /cdrom/UXINSTAL/README and
   The CD content will not actually be copied, only a few MB of steering information and the reader program will be stored in /usr/lrom, the configuration file is /usr/lrom/.lromrc. Note that lrom assumes all filenames to be uppercase, if they're not, it won't work.
3. For the actual content there are various options:
   • Leave the mounted CD in the drive.
   • Mount the contents from a remote server.
   • Copy the contents to a local disk.

      
     cp -p -r /cdrom /lrom
     

     This will need about 430MB free disk space for the 1993 and earlier release, and almost a complete CD equivalent for later ones.
   In either case modify /usr/lrom/.lromrc to point to the new location.

Some basic customizations

1. In /etc/inetd.conf disable all unnecessary services. If the machine should offer boot services, bootps and tftp must be enabled.

2.  
   chmod o-x /usr/bin/ypcat 
   

3. /etc/netnmrc
   Outcomment the start of snmpd (and dpid2 ?)
4. In /etc/inittab
   disable unwanted services by placing a colon (':') at the beginning of the line, and enable multiuser operation by:

    
   init:3:initdefault   # first line, HP-UX 9.x 
   init:4:initdefault   # first line, HP-UX 8.x 
   

   This also enables automatic start of VUE desktop, provided the line

   vue :34:respawn:/etc/vuerc   
   

   is present.
5. IP name and name resolution
   This should already be set at installation time. If not, run

   /etc/set_parms hostname

   Influential files are

   /etc/src.sh       # defines system name and time zone
   /etc/hosts        # defines host names, including the own 
   

   /etc/resolv.conf defines domain name and name server(s):

   domain     localdomain
   nameserver 192.168.1.1   # e.g. a home router passing requests to the provider    
   # possibly:
   nameserver 127.0.0.1     # localhost, only if machine is name server itself ! 
   nameserver my.ip.address # only if machine is name server itself !
   

   
   The central script for LAN setup is /etc/netlinkrc, executed at system startup. It should have:

                                           # example, starts the NIC:
   /etc/ifconfig lan0 inet `hostname` netmask 255.255.255.0 up
   /etc/route add  default 192.168.1.1 1   # example, to define a gateway 
   

   One may use lanscan to query the name of the NIC.
6. specification of IP name resolution order,
   i.e. lookup in /etc/hosts first, then query the DNS, comes standard only for HP-UX >9.05 (afaik). According to instructions in comp.sys.hp.hpux it should be available for HP-UX==9.05 via patches, e.g. from above mentioned patch CDs. If such patch CD is not available,
   1. get patches e.g.
      for series 700 from ftp.itrc.hp.com:
      PHCO_11161, PHCO_7747 (libc), PHCO_4439 (mount), PHNE_4563 (nslookup), PHNE_4487 (ifconfig), PHSS_7751 (VUE), PHSS_5902 (xterm, xhost, xrdb) (not found),
      for series 800 from ftp.itrc.hp.com:
      PHCO_11162, PHCO_7748 (libc), PHCO_4784 (mount), PHNE_4563 (nslookup), PHNE_4488 (ifconfig), PHSS_7751 (VUE), PHSS_5902 (xterm, xhost, xrdb) (not found),
      (it looks like the HP archives have disappeared in the mean time, I have offline copies).
   2. install them using e.g.

       
      sh PHCO_7747 # unpack, PHCO_7747.updt, PHCO_7747.text  
      /etc/update  # change source: from tape, enter PHCO_7747.updt 
      

   Then /etc/newconfig/nsswitch/nssw.filesdns or /etc/newconfig/nsswitch/nssw.dnsfiles may serve as templates for /etc/nsswitch.conf which steers name resolution. An entry like

    
   hosts: files[NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] nis   
   

   specifies name resolution in the order /etc/hosts, DNS nameserver, NIS. (leave out the nis entry if NIS won't be active). More information with

    
   man switch 
   

Additional local software

mount rs6kf:/swdepotfs/ /mnt
cd /opt/
/mnt/HPUX/PA/090x/installopt.sh
# or, respectively
/mnt/HPUX/68K/0910/installopt.sh

What's next ?