Re: AW: Slashdiot article about P6

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Similar to Joes, during our upgrade to V5R4 from image vcatalog I got "bit"
by a PTF I missed and the install "hung".  Finally got the machine powered
down brought it up, 5722999 and SS1 are at V5R4 everything else at V5R3.
Did a reboot from the V5R4 CD's and voila....well ti was a FEW hours but
anyways....

On 1/8/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: David Gibbs
> >
> > As Scott mentioned ... I was referring to the Linux upgrade process.
> > Once installed and configured, Linux works fine for me.
> >
> > In contrast to System i ... (with the exception of 3rd party hardware
> > vendor lies and user error) I've *NEVER* had a problem upgrading i5/os
> > (os/400).
>
> And the system is highly "SUT" (stupid user tolerant).  I misread the
> documentation, and attempted to load an entire set of cumes and group PTFs
> at one time.  The link loader blew up; I had loaded too many PTFs.
>
> A failure of this magnitude on just about any other operating system would
> involve at the very least rebuilding the machine from scratch and probably
> reinstalling all software and reloading the last data backup as well.
>
> With OS/400, I called IBM and they walked me through "slipping the LIC" -
> basically, reloading the operating system UNDERNEATH all the application
> data.  After about an hour and a half, I was good to go without touching a
> single backup tape.
>
> I then reapplied my cumes and groups according to the directions, and
> didn't
> get a hiccup.
>
> Joe
>
>
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