Re: Migrating from PCS to CA for Win95 (again)

[Pete Massiello <PMassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom McArthur wrote:
> 
> <<SNIP>> 
> I have 12 or 15 *remote* PCs that I need to upgrade to CA for Win95.
> Making 12 or 15 copies of the 15 disks needed for CA isn't a viable
> solution. Since all of the PCs are already connected to the AS/400, I
> want to MIGRATE them to CA.
> How do I do this? What INSTALL program do I run off of Shared
> Folders? I don't see CA there; do I need to run a command on the 400
> to copy QCA400 to QDLS (Shared Folders)???
> 
> Since DOS & Win31 can't run 32-bit CA code, I'm guessing that the
> migration will be a multi-step process. What programs do I run for
> each step?
> 
> SUMMARY: Since using disks isn't very practical, how do I migrate
> *remote* PCs from PCS to CA for Win95?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the original ambiguity.
> 
> Tom
> 
Tom,  

    You may want to give this a shot.  Instead of creating the 12-15
install disks, you might want to create the install disks on a Shared
Folder (not an IFS directory, because only the new clients can access
that), but create a folder in the QDLS directory. Then when you make
install disks, instead of writing to A:, you write to this new
directory.  Now all you need to do is execute the "setup" command in the
folder from each of the remote PCs.  This will be much slower than
creating disks for each client.

    If you had clients that were on Win 3.1 of Client Access, then they
could point to the new IFS directories, and you would execute
QCA400\WIN32\INSTALL\IMAGE\SETUP.EXE 

HTH

Pete Massiello
OS Solutions International
Voice (203)-744-7854 Ext 11
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