Installing HP-UX 11i need advice

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Hi all
alway get great help in this group, so here i am again:

1) this time I am installing/upgrading HP-UX 11i on a HP 9000/800 G30 server
that i believe has version 10 on it. I have logged in successfully and is at
the prompt #. I cannot get to access the CD drive to start the installation.
Where do i go from this point.

2) The G30 only has a SCSI/console/LAN module so i am limited to an AUI and
a 10BASE2 coaxial ports for network. my home network have a cable broadband
connection to the internet and is thinking of connecting via DHCP. Any
advice on how this will work or not work. Do i need any other equipment to
accomodate the AUI and thinnet port to my network?

Regards

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stewart allen wrote:

> Hi all
> alway get great help in this group, so here i am again:
>
> 1) this time I am installing/upgrading HP-UX 11i on a HP 9000/800 G30 server
> that i believe has version 10 on it. I have logged in successfully and is at
> the prompt #. I cannot get to access the CD drive to start the installation.
> Where do i go from this point.

Verry carefully check if the G30 can have HP-UX 11.i...
http://www.openpa.net/systems/index.html says a G30 can go up to 11, not 11.i.
One of the reasons for it might be that there are no divers anymore, the other
one is that it does not fit into core-memory or on disk.

>
> 2) The G30 only has a SCSI/console/LAN module so i am limited to an AUI and
> a 10BASE2 coaxial ports for network. my home network have a cable broadband
> connection to the internet and is thinking of connecting via DHCP. Any
> advice on how this will work or not work. Do i need any other equipment to
> accomodate the AUI and thinnet port to my network?

If you realy want to work with the G30, best to get a AUI for your network (AUI
with utp connector). A switch (or router) with a coax-connector is an alternate.




CBee

 

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>> 2) The G30 only has a SCSI/console/LAN module so i am limited to an
>> AUI and a 10BASE2 coaxial ports for network. my home network have a
>> cable broadband connection to the internet and is thinking of
>> connecting via DHCP. Any advice on how this will work or not
>> work. Do i need any other equipment to accomodate the AUI and
>> thinnet port to my network?

> If you realy want to work with the G30, best to get a AUI for your
> network (AUI with utp connector). A switch (or router) with a
> coax-connector is an alternate.

10.20 and later support DHCP - you will be asked about that as you
install the OS. May also be discussed in the comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ
which is posted regularly to comp.sys.hp.hpux (groups.google) and
archived at rtfm.mit.edu. As for the gizmo you need/want - you want a
"thinnet tranceiver" to connect to your AUI port that then gives an
RJ45 port you will plug-in to the rest of your home-network equipment.
You will also want to make sure that you have the internal jumper
block set to "AUI" or "ext" rather than "BNC" or "int" - IIRC, the G30
still had that jumper block and didn't auto-detect.

HP-UX does not have (?) support for stuff like PPoE, so you will need
to have one of those broadband routers - you don't/won't connect the
G30 directly to your DSL/cable modem.

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> As for the gizmo you need/want - you want a
> "thinnet tranceiver" to connect to your AUI port that then gives an
> RJ45 port you will plug-in to the rest of your home-network equipment.
> You will also want to make sure that you have the internal jumper
> block set to "AUI" or "ext" rather than "BNC" or "int" - IIRC, the G30
> still had that jumper block and didn't auto-detect.

Ok, i have a tranceiver, but when i hook up i do not see any network
activity, so i am assuming it is not set to the AUI port. So I pulled out
the card and locate the jumper block, but now i need to know how to set it.
Any diagram out there or do you know what pins are up or down on the block

Regards

 

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stewart allen <stewaetallen@comcast.net> wrote:
> Ok, i have a tranceiver, but when i hook up i do not see any network
> activity, so i am assuming it is not set to the AUI port. So I
> pulled out the card and locate the jumper block, but now i need to
> know how to set it. Any diagram out there or do you know what pins
> are up or down on the block

There should be a label on either side of the pins silkscreened to the
circuit board. The jumper block is a single block - you move it from
one side to the other as a unit. No individual pins to move. My
recollection is of a jumper block, not a set of dip switches. Don't
mess with any dipswitches.

rick jones

If all else fails, there may still be hardware/system manuals for the
G30 online at docs.hp.com.

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Thanks for the help:

> There should be a label on either side of the pins silkscreened to the
> circuit board. The jumper block is a single block - you move it from
> one side to the other as a unit. No individual pins to move. My
> recollection is of a jumper block, not a set of dip switches. Don't
> mess with any dipswitches.

Right in front of my eyes and never noticed it. now i believed that is part
is fine. I am using an old Cabletron TPT-4 tranceiver to attach it to the
network and that seems to be working also, because the PWR and Link light
are solid green and the SQE solid yellow

I am a little concerned because on the scsi/console/lan card the self test
indicater light keep flashing all the time and on the card it says the
following inscription: (Flash: xcvr/net fail and On: fail) this is making me
suspicious that something is wrong or the card need furthur configuration.
incidentaly i did a ping localhost and the packet was fine. should i accept
that this working fine and move on or not?

> If all else fails, there may still be hardware/system manuals for the
> G30 online at docs.hp.com.
cannot find it. Do you know if it is still available and can you paste in
the link?