Re: Upgrading V5R2 to V5R3 using Image Catalogs

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vern

I always download the pre-req's and co-req's too, but I generally cut 
a CD (some customers like to have their own media). I can see where 
never bothering with the media would make this useful though - 
especially where there are a few machines on a network

I have tried this on a test box (it's a shame you can't get the whole 
OS upgrade to run including cumes..) and it's pretty slick but I 
think I need to run through it again before trying it on a real live 
customer; got one coming up where it will save me a drive though.

Thanks for the response.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 08:04 p.m. 28/09/2005, you wrote:
> Hi Evan
>
> A small thing, maybe, but I can load all the CDs into a PTF image 
> catalog, then fire it off and not have to be there to load the next one in.
>
> The other is that you don't need to have physical CDs - if you can 
> tolerate the download time, get the PTFs through FTP and load the 
> image catalog from the downloaded images. I do not recommend this 
> with CUMEs, as the download time is almost as long as getting the 
> CDs delivered.
>
> I find I like getting pre & coreqs when using the FTP method - helps 
> assure getting what is needed. So this, in combination with image 
> catalogs, is a useful strategy.
>
> JMHO
> Vern