Re: correct way to update AIX 4.3.3.0 to maintenance level 4330-11?(AIX newbie)
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Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:20:06 -0700
In my previous response, I didn't get the web page included for this...
>In your spare time... here's another site with some references to AIX
>vs Solaris commands/functions.
user@domain.invalid wrote:
>
>
> gprimerib wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the basic question, but I'm a Solaris guy trying to warm up
>> to AIX. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> We have an old 7017-R86 (S80) that's running 4.3.3. I need to put it
>> on EMC storage and EMC recommends that I install 'Maintenance Level
>> 4330-11' first.
>> Where do I get it and what's the "best practice" way to install it
>> safely?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> DM
>>
>
> Heres IBM's support web page for downloading fixes and maintenance level
> packages. Select pseries for the server type for your S80, the rest of
> the options ought to be straight forward - it gives you some
> instructions on how to tell your current level, and install tips.
>
> http://www-912.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fcgui.jsp
>
> My preferred way of doing an upgrade like this is to use their alternate
> disk installation technique where you clone your current o.s. onto
> another disk, and do the upgrade to that disk - then it modifies your
> bootlist to boot from the upgraded disk. You can point back to the old
> disk and boot to go back to your old o.s. in case of problems as well.
> You can do the upgrade this way without as much down time - just
> rebooting. Otherwise, the best practice would be to have an idle system
> and do the maintenance upgrade, then reboot.
>
> My system disks (rootvg) are mirrored, and I break the mirror, then use
> the previous mirror copy disk for the upgrade. Once I'm happy with the
> results and running with the upgrade, I do the cleanup and re-mirror
> rootvg. If you don't want to risk breaking the mirror, you can still do
> it, but you'd need two unused disks (bootable) to do the clone/upgrade to.
>
> For info on the process - if you have man pages installed...
>
> man alt_disk_install
>
> To start the process, you can run from the command line, but I find it
> easier to use smitty (or smit);
>
> smitty alt_install
>
> You can also access it via websm
>
> Online manuals are available for 4.3 at
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ds_form?lang=en_US&viewset=AIX&config=/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/data/base.cfg
>
>
> I have problems using the search function here (works fine with the 5L
> manuals) but you can check out the Install guide, chapter 10.
> Also, if you look at the Reference Documentation section, it has command
> references where you can look up the command.
>
>
> In your spare time... here's another site with some references to AIX vs
> Solaris commands/functions.
>
> The next step is learning about NIM (Network Install Manager) to install
> across the network, which is what I'm really suppose to be looking at on
> here...
>
> Good Luck - its actually a fairly easy upgrade you're looking at.
>
> Ron
> ron@colostate.edu
>
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