Hi All..

I'd like to upgrade from AIX 5200-05 to 5200-06, and have successfully
installed the 1st volume according to

https://techsupport.services.ibm.com...06/05to06.html

I.e. I have done the following

Click on the link for the Volume 1 package (the *.v1.tar.gz filename)
above.
Put the package (a tar.gz file) in /usr/sys/inst.images
Extract the filesets from the package.
cd /usr/sys/inst.images
gzip -d -c 520506.v1.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
Back up your system.
Install the package by creating a table of contents for install to use.
Then update the install subsystem itself. Run SMIT to complete the
installation.
inutoc /usr/sys/inst.images
installp -acgXd /usr/sys/inst.images bos.rte.install
smit update_all
Run the oslevel -r command. Depending on the output, do one of the
following:

When I run the oslevel -r command, I still see
5200-05

So I then try to install the second volume, which the link tells me to
install using the same procedure as the 1st volume

However, before I do this, I remove the files under
/usr/sys/inst.images, and then start gzipping the second volume..

When I run the command

installp -acgXd /usr/sys/inst.images bos.rte.install

I get the message : FILESET STATISTICS
------------------
1 Selected to be installed, of which:
1 FAILED pre-installation verification
----
0 Total to be installed


Pre-installation Failure/Warning Summary
----------------------------------------
Name Level Pre-installation Failure/Warning
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bos.rte.install Not found on the installation
media



Am I supposed to leave the the contents of the /usr/sys/inst.images
directory intact ?

But If I do, then how does the system know that it only has to apply the
second volume..

Thanks

Suggest you do it this way:

Follow the instructions to extract the files from the .gz but do BOTH
into the same directory structure. Then create the table of contents
and try the install again. In other words:

cd /usr/sys/inst.images
gzip -d -c 520506.v1.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
gzip -d -c 520506.v2.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
inutoc /usr/sys/inst.images
installp -acgXd /usr/sys/inst.images bos.rte.install
smit update_all

When asked for the input device, type in: /usr/sys/inst.images

If done right, the inutoc should have created a table of contents file
(.toc) that contains a list of filesets available from BOTH tar.gz
files. Now you just install the one time and you won't be missing any
pre-requisites.

HTH.

Steve

Forgot to mention, this takes up a LOT of disk space. You may want to
delete the tar.gz files AFTER each one is unzipped so you don't run
into a space issue in the /usr or /usr/sys/inst.images file system.

;-)

Thanks Steve..

That worked..



steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada wrote:
> Forgot to mention, this takes up a LOT of disk space. You may want to
> delete the tar.gz files AFTER each one is unzipped so you don't run
> into a space issue in the /usr or /usr/sys/inst.images file system.
>
> ;-)
>