Identifying Model, OS/OE, and Software

Before you install HP-UX 11i v1.6, check the model and other information on the system. You can use this information in the “System and Cold-Install Requirements”

Identify model

To determine the model number of your system, enter:

model

To verify that HP-UX 11i v1.6 is supported on your system see “System Configurations”.

From EFI you can identify the model by interrupting the autoboot process in the boot manager, entering the EFI shell, and using the info sys command:

Shell> info sys

The sample output should appear as follows:

SYSTEM INFORMATION   Product Name: server rx2600   Serial Number: sg20220034   UUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

Identify OS and OE

To identify the OS version that your system is currently running, enter:

uname -r

After cold-installing to HP-UX 11i v1.6, you'll notice that uname identifies the 11i release as B.11.22.

When a system has HP-UX 11i v1.6 installed, you can determine which revision is installed by entering the following command:

/usr/sbin/swlist -l bundle

The HPUXBaseAux bundle indicate the current installed revision level. The revision level is indicated both in the bundle version number and the description text.

To identify the Operating Environment currently installed on your system, use swlist. For example:

/usr/sbin/swlist

The output of this command includes a line which identifies the installed OE. For example, the HP-UX 11i v1.6 OE July 2002 release generates this line:

HPUX11i-OE B.11.22 HP-UX 11i Operating Environment Component

Identify installed software

To identify the software products on a system or a media, use swlist. For example, to show revision and descriptive title of all software installed on a system, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist

For example, to list all products and their versions on a DVD mounted at /cdrom, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist -s /cdrom

To get table of contents and product details, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist -dvl product -a readme @ /cdrom

swlist has many options to expand or narrow the listing to specific attributes; see the swinstall(1M) manpage or the Software Distributor Administrator Guide, available on the Instant Information CD and on this web site: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV1.6

	NOTE: The cold-install process will erase all software on the root volume before installing HP-UX 11i v1.6 and an optional OE. If you wish to retain any existing software, be sure to back up that software before migrating.