RE: Install of New iSeries at 5.1 or 5.2

["Rick Nardone" <rick@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Last week I was at the info center looking for the same type material.

Located "iSeries Software Installation Version 5" SC-5120-05.   Is that what
you found?



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> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:34:28 -0500
> From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@conmicro.cx>
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Install of New iSeries at 5.1 or 5.2
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:11:13PM -0500, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> > OK, next try looking under "Hardware and software"->"Software
> and licensed
> > programs"
>
> Found it - there's a book on installing software there. Whew.
>
> Now, the next hitch: You can only upgrade to v5r1 from v4r4 or v4r5. As
> noted before, I've got v4r4 install media, but no license key. Can I get a
> key for my system? Should I just upgrade to v4r4 and then immediately
> upgrade to v5r1, trusting that the 70-day grace period will serve
> (since it
> will be considerably less than 70 days)? Should I forget v4r4,
> beg a copy of
> v4r5 somewhere, and get a key for that instead (if I can)?
>
> > I agree that this thing has gotten much too hard.
>
> I like PDF manuals. I like having information available in HTML.
> I just wish
> IBM would organize it a bit more transparently, or provide an index.
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