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Re: Upgrading V5R2 to V5R3 using Image Catalogs

Hi Vern
I always download the pre-req's and co-req's too, but I generally cut a CD (some customers like to have their own media). I can see where never bothering with the media would make this useful though - especially where there are a few machines on a network
I have tried this on a test box (it's a shame you can't get the whole OS upgrade to run including cumes..) and it's pretty slick but I think I need to run through it again before trying it on a real live customer; got one coming up where it will save me a drive though. 

Thanks for the response.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 08:04 p.m. 28/09/2005, you wrote:

Hi Evan
A small thing, maybe, but I can load all the CDs into a PTF image catalog, then fire it off and not have to be there to load the next one in.
The other is that you don't need to have physical CDs - if you can tolerate the download time, get the PTFs through FTP and load the image catalog from the downloaded images. I do not recommend this with CUMEs, as the download time is almost as long as getting the CDs delivered.
I find I like getting pre & coreqs when using the FTP method - helps assure getting what is needed. So this, in combination with image catalogs, is a useful strategy. 

JMHO
Vern

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