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- From: tkevans@fallst (Tim Evans)
- Subject: Re: PTFs on installation servers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.135559.19614@fallst>
- Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
- Organization: Tim Evans
- References: <1992Nov18.123530.39@rcwusr> <1992Nov20.164253.10997@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:55:59 GMT
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- frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov18.123530.39@rcwusr>, jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
- >> i had gotten into the habit of rolling the various and insundry PTF tapes to
- >> a common directory on a machine we had setup as an installation server. once
- >> done i'd then go the various RS/6000s and install all patches with commit,etc.
- >> my theory was that any PTFs that i had loaded previously would be overwritten
- >> and the installp would take care of the prerequisite strings. this worked fine
- >> until they started to recend PTFs. just recently we got a tape with a BUNCH
- >> of fixes for the 220 and GT1 (bloody thing just didn't work). in doing the
- >> enmass PTF apply, i ended up with a pile of garbage. reloading the machine and
- >> applying the PTFs from tape, one tape at a time, the machine works fine.
- >> how do others apply PTFs to a large population of machines??
-
- >Did you read the memo to users and follow it's instructions? Whatever you do, be sure
- >to apply the latest fix to installp first! There was a major change made to enable
- >superseding PTFs with PTF U406852. This PTF, or one that supersedes it, MUST be
- >applied first! This PTF also has a performance and memory leak fix for installp.
-
- Also, note that the smit option to "load software to hard disk for future
- installation" runs 'bffcreate' and that this is supposed to dynamically
- expand the filesystem as needed as you load the PTF's from tape.
- THIS DOES NOT WORK! If you have a failure loading the PTF's from
- tape, this is probably the reason why. You need to 'chfs' the file-
- system in advance, making enough space available for the PTF's you
- want to load.
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