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- From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Experiences installing AIX 3.2.3
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:07:24 GMT
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In article <1k5fp5INNsf6@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll) writes:
- >In article <1k51igINNh9m@menudo.uh.edu> mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde) writes:
- >...
- >>I would venture that the break point for one day falls about at a 530-530H.
- >>If your machine is faster, you should be able to completely install and update
- >>in in a day. If its slower it can take two. This, of course, get shaded for
- >>how much you are installing. (HINT: *don't* choose all when it asks you what
- >
- >Thank you, Jack, for your informations. We installed some 200 systems in 1992
- >at about 40 customer sites. My problem is that a regular installation
- >take too long. So we decided to create a bootable image to install new
- >machines. This images is with AIX, AIXwindows and FORTRAN. All known and
- >necessary patches are incorporated. This takes down the installation
- >time to two hours on a desktop model and to 50 minutes on a 580.
-
- This is what I do. I have a network install machine with each of the images
- (dd'ed from the install tapes) on disk, and image backups for 3.2, 3.2.2,
- 3.2.3, and stripped versions of each. I choose the one that fits best
- and then do any minor customizing. You could do something similar on tape.
- I find it strange that it takes 2 hours on a desktop and 50 minutes on a 580,
- though. In my experience it takes something on the order of 45 minutes
- regardless of model (with the exception of 220's, which is another story
- altogether). Are you using different media?
-
- >Even preloaded machines are no progress because you have to install
- >most of the software yourself from disk. This takes too long.
- >
- >In 1992 we saw five upgrades: 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2., 3.2.3 base, 3.2.3 extended.
- >In a worst case estimation this would mean on a desktop model 10 days downtime
- >(not counting the necessary phone calls and additional downtimes for
- >essential fixes like the qdaemon patch introduced with 3.2.3). This is not
- >acceptable.
-
- The worst case I have seen is the 220. If you are installing enough lpp's I
- can see it taking as much as 3 days. (It seems like it took about 16 hours
- straight the last time I did it from scratch - and it had AIX and X11, not
- much else. The majority of the time was waiting for the ptfs to install and
- rebuild the kernel many many times.) This doesn't include any fixes that
- aren't on a distribution tape.
-
- jack
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