i5 520 install comments

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a few comments about my weekend with a new i5 520.
The very small 520's sold by business partners seem to come like a stock item. 
We added
an additional disk drive & raid controller to the standard config. So when box 
arrives, they are not already installed, but in separate parts boxes (to be 
user or bp or CE installed (for a fee)).
I had no problem with that & bp had given me notice it would be that way.
Again IBM is changing install docs. I found the unpacking docs, 
and a Starting Here doc that sent me to Info Center, but could find no clear 
starting instructions.
I did find the cabling instructions - but again not to clear. The ethernet 
ports (there were 2 ports, very strangely labelled with symbols) - i guessed 
right & plugged in. Twinax controller card on back had no feature# label..... 
but it seemed the only choice avail. 
BP left the UPS conversion cable off final order - now ordered and coming later.
No real instructions for power up (i could find)- so i cabled the twinax 
console (old customer-this is the only twinax device in the building), and 
powered on. No problems.
Preloaded software never prloads all the options we use - so added them. 
Client Access license key arrived, and a letter saying thanks for ordering a 
product, but no CD and CD not on packing slips.   
I already knew this, but cume ptfs no longer come with system. 
Machine preload for i5 ordered in Dec came with not current (272) but prev cume 
installed.
I had ordered via phone cume & groups (after several moments of support persons 
not understanding
us english, and my not understanding their version, and then their not knowing 
what a "ptf" is). 
I did ptf opt 8 to load cume & groups, but found new option select "2" to load 
multiple groups
not working. Kept asking for next cd in a group, when that group was done, and 
should have of asked for next group. 3 attempts, gave up and loaded cume first 
w/no ipl, then opt 8 for each group. Last group Y to ipl. 
Not live yet, but getting there. No compatible tape drive to old system so am 
ftp'ing everything over.
jim franz