Re: How do I create an installable 5.3 ML04 subset?

Jeffery,
I've generally had problems getting files to install off of my own CDs
in AIX 5.x. Usually the way around this is to SCP the files to /tmp or
something from my workstation and then run inutoc from within /tmp.

j3 wrote:
Dan Foster wrote:
In article <1152074531.569086.99770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, j3 <jeffrey_e_ross2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running AIX 5.3.0.0 and woul like to apply ML04 but don't have a
copy. It's a 1.5GB download which is too big, so I used FTP to
download the relevant filesets, ignoring some large filesets that we
don't use. Thus I have a directory containing many files such as:
bos.64bit.5.3.0.30.bff
bos.acct.5.3.0.30.bff
bos.adt.5.3.0.30.bff
etc.
How do I build this into a bundle that installp will read?

If you are in that directory, then:
# inutoc .
Then to apply the updates:
# smitty update_all
-Dan

Thanks, gentlemen.
I had created the .toc file using inutoc and then written all the files
to CD, however when I ran installp against that to see the list of
filesets it too several minutes to respond and then gave error messages
saying "/cdrom is not a valid device or file" and "No installable
software products were found on the media". I never thought of trying
to run installp against the files on disk because I want to delete them
from there once I have the CD method working. Now that I look at it I
see that the error log has registered a lot of "disk operation errors"
against the CD and when it's running the CD driver certainly does sound
like it's doing a lot of re-reads.
I'll burn another CD...
Jeffrey

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