Mounting The Source Media - HP 9000 Manual

Installing and updating hp-ux 10.x
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NOTE
If you are updating any networking products, such as FDDI or
Token-Ring, which are not on the HP-UX Runtime tape or the CORE CD,
please see "Networking Products on Additional Media", in this chapter.

Mounting the Source Media

1. Note that your multi-user license is typically supplied on separate
2. Ensure that you have made a backup tape of your present system.
3. Ensure that your system is booted and running HP-UX 10.x. You
4. Turn on the DDS or CD-ROM drive, if it is external to your HP-UX
5. Insert the tape or CD-ROM into its drive.
6. Wait for the busy lights to stop blinking.
7. If necessary, identify the drive device, using the /etc/ioscan
8. If you are using a tape source, you do not need to mount the drive. Go
9. If you are using a CD-ROM, note that you will first have to mount the
Chapter 2
media.
should have a term window opened.
10.x system.
-fn command.
on to the procedure in "Updating SD-UX Before Installing/Updating
Software".
disc, using SAM or the mount(1M) command. If you do not use SAM,
you can do the following to mount the disc:
a. Put the CD into the CD-ROM drive. CD-ROM "busy light" should
blink.
b. Open a term window and, at the shell prompt, type the following:
mkdir /SD_CDROM
mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /SD_CDROM
The device name "c1t2d0" should be replaced with whatever
device name you found using ioscan in item 7 above.
Updating an Existing Operating System and Software
HP-UX Update Requirements
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