Re: AIX 5.2 installing bos.perf.tools & perfagent.tools

From: Timothy J. Bogart (tbogart_at_frii.net)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:42 -0600

Pete's wrote:
> "Gary R. Hook" <nospam@nospammers.net> wrote in message news:<tWtjc.22177$KG1.19091@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...
>
>>Complain to support. The packaging for that fileset is hosed.
>>
>>When I ran into this a few weeks ago, I was told that the fileset
>>should install automatically, but it looks as if they didn't get
>>it right. You'll need an install version of perfagent.tools,
>>rather than the update version you appear to have.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply Gary, the way they did this is bs. i.e.
> Installing the way i did it, requires versions of filesets that don't
> appear to be available.
>
> Problem resolved.
>
> I called support and they said, to do the following(which I did),
> smitty install_all ->
> enter software location ->
> select the filesets to install, i.e. bos.perf.tools ->
> select true for 'Automatically install requisite software' ->
> select true for 'Process multiple volumes' ->
> then install.
>
> I did all this before I called and it failed. Mentioned that to
> support, they asked, 'Did you manually mount the cd?' Yes. Support
> replies back, 'You need to have the cd be auto mounted.' Automount of
> the cd was not setup yet as I performed a complete overwrite install
> of the OS on this machine. So, I startsrc'd the automountd(which I
> don't think I needed to do) & cdromd subsystems, redo the above steps
> and wallah, it installs bos.perf.tools and then asks you to insert the
> Disk2 of the set to install perfagent.tools.
>
> Hope this helps someone else.
> Pete's

Well, it sounds like you got fed some more bull. The IBM CDs don't need
to be mounted at all to load software from them. The fact that you
mounted one is probably what screwed up the multi-volume stuff. Unless
you want to auto mount CDs for some other reason, it is a waste to have
running....

Cheers.

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