Jim,
When you did the “unsupported” remote load from a PC, did it act as an image catalog and auto-load the next CD or was it a manual process?
With 7.3 TR3 and 7.2 TR7, we will be able to do initial loads from USB
From: Jim Oberholtzer<mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:40 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Image catalog on another system (was: V7R3 media - image catalogs)
Yes, well sort of, it can't be a PC in the instructions, it must be another
IBM i. You use the NFS method of update/upgrade. I can be done with LICPGM
and PTFs. With the initial load of the OS (LIC and OS) I managed to get it
to work from a PC but it's not supported that way by IBM. I think you can
use a NIM server with the newer version of the HMC but I have not checked
that out yet, since I don't have customers that would use it.
See:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/power/i/nfs_optical_upgrade.pdf
The command to start a remote install looks awful but when you figure out
that you are doing the command on the HMC and it's a command followed by a
series of Name/Value pairs, it starts to make sense.
You could also load the optical images on the HMC and use the HMC to load
it, but that's a real pain because the HMC will not act as an autoloader so
every time it calls for a new DVD you have to mount it in the HMC interface.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
midrange.com
