Re: Technical Support Bulletin - UNIX

I have no idea what you did wrong. If you do it right, you will get
appropriately named files. You are quite possibly using the wrong ftp
client, such as any ftp on a MS Windows system.

Go to the page for "Support for IBM System p" and click on "Quick links
to AIX fixes".

After you tell it where you are and where you want to go, and you are
looking at a page with your 943 fixes, select "Download all filesets
using the FTP command".

What happens now behind the scenes at IBM is they build a directory full
of symlinks just for you, and they tell you its name.

You are probably using the wrong FTP client. Forget anything fancy, or
GUI, or Windows. Log onto the target AIX system and issue the linemode
FTP command from there to download these fixes. Be sure to cd to a
directory in a filesystem that has enough space, before entering the ftp
command - that upgrade is almost 2GB. Follow their instructions exactly,
and it will work, and you will get the right file names.

It is especially important that you DO NOT use a MS Windows system to
download these! That is because some files will disappear due to
UPPER-lower case name conflicts which exist in Unix but which are the
same filename in Windows. It might be that you have a windows ftp client
that is renaming your files to save you from this potential data loss
problem.

All you need to do before actual installation is run inutoc.

Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd@xxxxxxx



On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Sandor W. Sklar wrote:

Its actually kind of annoying, from my perspective. I went and
downloaded the fix set to go from 5.2 -> 5.2-09-SP3, and used FTP to
get the packages. I wound up with 943 packages, named "1.bff"
through "943.bff".

-s-

On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Lamar Saxon wrote:

No concerns for us?



Lamar

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