Re: aix-l Digest - 20 Jan 2005 to 21 Jan 2005 (#2005-20)

From: Roger Deschner (rogerd_at_UIC.EDU)
Date: 01/22/05

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    Date:         Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:58:45 -0600
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    The error message you get says to read /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/README. Well,
    read it carefully. It explains exactly what you need to do.

    Removing filesets is NOT what you want to do if you might be restoring
    at an alternate Disaster Recovery Site someday, onto who-knows-what
    exact hardware model.

    We have chosen the option to create boot CDs, which we keep with the
    mksysb tapes in the offsite vault etc. This is Solution 1 in
    /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/README. You can use original installation CDs for
    this UNTIL you apply a Maintenance Level. Our 5.2 install CDs are at
    ML0, and we are now running ML4. So in accordance with the warning in
    /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/README I made new boot CDs. The version of the
    command which makes the image which can be transferred worked flawlessly
    - I moved the resulting image to a Windows box with a CD burner and
    burned a good AIX boot CD using the usual Roxio burning software. (mkcd
    calls mkisofs, which if you don't have you'll need to get from online or
    from the Linux Toolbox CD.)

    Roger Deschner ACCC Basic Systems Group rogerd@uic.edu

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