Re: device packages?!?

In article <1137615581.261965.68490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cc <christiancolborn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> okay, i found something about ibm's "fixcentral", so i went there and
> entered the codes, oslevel, etc, and found a list of filesets, which
> i'm currently downloading and burning to disk to put on the machine...

If you have network access to the machine, you can FTP or scp the
filesets to a filesystem that has room. (Let's say /var)

Then do:

# inutoc /var
# installp -aXgd/var <name of fileset #1> <name of fileset #2> .....

The meaning of the installp flags:

-a = APPLY (but *NOT* commit...easy to back out)
-X = grow filesystem during installation if needed
-g = pull in any other forgotten group prereqs as needed
-d = directory to find the filesets (packages)

inutoc scans the directory for any filesets and then extracts package
information from each and builds it into a .toc file in the same directory.

This makes it very fast for the installp command to figure out
dependencies and prereqs/coreqs/etc.

Otherwise, yeah, you could do the ISO image burn to CD route and stuff.

-Dan
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