To create a golden system, follow the steps described in this section:

•“Installing the HP-UX operating system ” (page 152)

•“Installing critical patches onto the operating system” (page 152)

•“Installing optional software” (page 153)

•“Customizing the system ” (page 153)

•“Creating the golden archive” (page 153)

Once you have a system with the base operating system, you may choose to place patches, applications, kernel configurations, etc. on the system, or just include the core operating system. In our example, we only include the HP-UX 11i v1 core operating system.

Ignite-UX is capable of installing software from SD depots. You might want to use this capability when setting up your golden system. See “Setting up additional software on the server” (page 41) for more information.

Installing the HP-UX operating system

Although this can be performed without an Ignite-UX server by using swinstall from media, this example of an HP-UX 11i v1 installation uses a network depot as the software source.

1.On the Ignite-UX server, set up the 11i v1 core operating system to be distributed. Enter the following commands:

#/opt/ignite/bin/make_depots -r B.11.11 \ -s server:/depots/11.11/B5725AA

where server is the name of the server on which the depot is located.

#/opt/ignite/bin/make_config -r B.11.11

The make_depots command copies the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) software from the SD depot pointed to by the -soption (the pathname depends on the location of the SD depot you are accessing) to the local Ignite-UX server.

The make_config command then adds this software as a configuration available for Ignite-UX installations. You can run make_config and point it to the remote depot directly, if you prefer.

2.Prepare the client system for installation by booting the client:

• If the client is currently running HP-UX, boot the system from the server by entering

#bootsys -v -w -f -i "HP-UX B.11.11 Default" \ client_hostname

where client_hostname is the name of the client.

•If the client is not currently running HP-UX, boot the system from the client console. See “Booting Itanium-based clients using the network” (page 100) or“Booting PA-RISC clients from the console ” (page 99), depending on the system type.

3.Install the client with the core operating system configuration you have just set up and continue with the next section.

Installing critical patches onto the operating system

At this point, you must have a client installed with the basic HP-UX release – in this example, HP-UX 11i v1. If you have patches to distribute to all users, install them now. This is normally done using the standard SD tools.

For example, to install patch PHCO_34240:

1.Download and use unshar PHCO_34240 to obtain two files: PHCO_34240.depot PHCO_34240.text

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