Re: New partition install from NFS.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep it is kinda odd, at first. It has gotten easier with newer releases, 
i 7.1 worked well but there were places where documentation simply ended 
and 'educated guessing' was needed. With i 7.3 you actually get 'network 
install' as a source and that's awesome. The scariest single thing was 
that command on the HMC to start the partition! Truth told though when 
you look at all those parms each on their own is trivial so it's 
actually not bad at all.

Now you just keep a set of media ready at all times and good to go!

Only issue we run into is since we have i 7.1, .2, and .3 clients still 
we have to update and restart the tftp server to do a new install. Not a 
big deal but a 'remember to do' point.

We use OPTNET01 for the IBM i Install/upgrade media and OPTNET02 for the 
PTF media. Then a separate OPTNETKEY that has a LODRUN program on it for 
loading keys. You can now think of many things this can be useful for. 
:-)   It's very cool in multi-tenant because the customer does but 
doesn't really have access to any of our stuff. :-)

And of course remember ALL of these guys need to be Vary on at IPL *NO 
because they only pick up the contents of VOLUME_LIST at Vary On time.

Glad you are having fun!!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
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On 1/9/2017 3:04 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> Install finished.
>
> VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTNET01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*OFF)
> CHGDEVOPT DEVD(OPTNET01) NETIMGDIR('/fixes/cume')
> To change it from /fixes/V7
>
> VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTNET01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)
> INSPTF LICPGM((*ALL)) DEV(OPTNET01) INSTYP(*DLYALL)
>
> PTF install is zooming along...
>
> Larry,
>
> Why did I wait until you had to beat me severely, repeatedly, to get me to
> use this?
>
> Granted, the first time you do this you feel like you're in a strange new
> world and a few more wiki's, blogs, etc of actually doing this might help.
>
> Rob Berendt