Re: Model Update Plan
From: Bradford J. Hamilton (hamilton_at_Encompasserve.org)
Date: 07/29/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:38:14 +0000 (UTC)
In article <bg6127$fd0$1@grandcanyon.binc.net>, THIS$THAT <nobody@spamcop.net> writes:
!snip!
!The meat of it is using product install to apply the upgrade and the
!right set of patches in the right order which is considerably helped
!by the patch summaries. See my skeleton plan below.
Thanks! This clears up a number of questions...
!
!What I may (wrongly) be seeing as difficulties is some of the
!preliminaries. For instance config files. Some will have been edited
!and saved back through a search list to the wrong place. So a check
!against a list of definitive locations seems needed. Another prelim
!is the CD bootstrapping, as the CD's on the LAN rather than directly
!attached.
Can't speak to that one - my CD's have been driectly attached for years.
!The one query with the set of patches is XFC. I'm upgrading from 7.3
!to 7.3-1 and XFC is supposed to be defaulted on in 7.3. Vcc_flags is
!2 in current, but show memory /cache says no volumes in full XFC. So
!I think I need the XFC but am not sure.
The display you speak of does not really say what you think it says - you *do*
have XFC enabled currently. See the archives of c.o.v. for discussion of this
phenomenon.
Since you are talking about an O/S and layered products upgrade, as well as an
application of the latest patches, I can tell you what I do (I just did this in
late June):
Obtain and read carefully the Installation and Upgrade manual from hp:
(Warning: wrapped URL!)
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731FINAL/DOCUMENTATION/PDF/
OVMS_731_alpha_install.PDF
Follow this guide carefully; I've used it (and its predecessors) to do several
O/S upgrades, and never had a problem. I've not needed a separate reboot
between O/S and TCP/IP stack; I think you can do them at the same time.
After you've completed the upgrade of the O/S and TCP/IP stack, perform another
system disk backup, install the "new" PCSI patch, then the latest UPDATE patch,
the LAN patch, and the TCP/IP ECO (use the "new" PSCI qualifiers for the UPDATE
and LAN patch - I don't know about the TCP/IP ECO - I don't use the TCP/IP
stack from hp). Do you *really* need the CDRECORD? If so, do that one, too.
Then reboot.
I have not experienced a problem grouping the "rebootable" patches; I mean
applying them one after the other (in the proper order), and then rebooting
after they have all been applied. Others will tell you to be more cautious; if
this is a production system, you may wish to be cautious, and reboot after each
patch that requires a reboot.
Once you have your system the way you want it, you may want to perform another
backup of the system disk, almost as a "baseline" for subsequent patches. Some
folks may consider this overkill, but if you have the time and media, why not?
!snip!
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