If there are sufficient disk arms on the system, (more than 6 but
preferably 12 or so) then Image catalogs will be faster than physical
DVD by quite a bit. Lacking the disk arms, if you can get someone to
cut you a distribution tape the tape drive will be faster than the DVD
by a good margin.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
On 2/27/2013 7:33 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
Is there any big difference in installation time using catalogs 'vs'
physical media.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Eric Lehti<elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Jack, I used image catalogs in our recent upgrade to V7R1 from V5R4M5.
> > From your question I assume you are aware of these tasks to perform:
>
> - Download and run the IBM Pre-upgrade Verification tool for i5/OS
>
> https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=ipv
> t&S_PKG=dl3&lang=en_US&cp=UTF-8
>
> - Upgrading or replacing software using automatic installation:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=
> %2Frzahc%2Fautoins.htm
>
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