Hi
I have been trying for a little while to load the HP16702B software on a larger hard disk.
The limitations of the logical analyzer installation disk are such that you cannot really go higher than 16G.
Check
https://www.mattmillman.com/16702b/The problem is that with PE size of 4M and max PE of about 4000 the LVM group size is thus limited.
The installer forces the PE size to 4M even if you try to increase it. It seems it is a crippled version of the HPUX installer with some hacks.
I have finally succeeded installing on a 300G SCA disk, and I will be explaining how.
What I did is installing HP-UX 10.20 on the disk, having set the PE size to 128M.
After that I installed from a different CD the C C++ development platforms.
Finally I have installed the HP16700 software which is located in the installation CD but on the subfolder LA_CDROM
The installation progresses until it stops when trying to build the kernel: mk_kernel complains of a missing symbol referenced to by the libstarship.a (logic analyzer library)
the missing symbol is set_caps_light
The hpux library in fact contains a symbol with a similar name : kbd_set_caps_light
https://www.unix.com/hp-ux/162062-hp-ux-10-20-mk_kernel-failure.htmlTo circumvent this problem I created a small .c program that contains the missing function: set_caps_light. My function does nothing.
I have inserted the module inside the libstarship.a library using ar -q libstarship.a mymodule.o
mk_kernel
then
cp /stand/vmunix /stand/vmunix.old
mv /stand/build/vmunix_test /stand/vmunix
Restart the installation that was suspended.
If you want to preserve the hpux interface then follow also:
http://www.perdrix.co.uk/hp16700/Before starting the installation make a back-up of the files that are described in perdrix webpage.
The installer will overwrite them, so you restore them before rebooting.
Then you reboot and it worked.
Filippo
I will post more details later