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

From: Gary R. Hook (nospam_at_nospammers.net)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:09:45 GMT

Pete's wrote:

> 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.

Agreed. I was not impressed to discover this (having spent a few
years in kernel development and dealing with packaging most
of that time. However, what's done is done.

> 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.'

Good grief.

> So, I startsrc'd the automountd(which I
> don't think I needed to do) & cdromd subsystems, redo the above steps
> and wallah,

"voilą" :-)

> it installs bos.perf.tools and then asks you to insert the
> Disk2 of the set to install perfagent.tools.

Good to know you were successful. Thanks for sharing your
"experience". 

-- 
Gary R. Hook / AIX PartnerWorld for Developers / These opinions are MINE
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