Re: Image Catalogs for Upgrades

I can provide one good reason for using image catalogs that I believe has 
not been mentioned before in this thread.  Yes, the effort is the same 
(except that, for OS installs, you can do your "prepare for upgrade" step 
and the install without loading the CDs twice).  A much more important 
reason, from my perspective, is the installation we helped-with 2 weeks 
ago where one of the OS/400 CDs could not be read (it was dirty or 
defective).

Consider that, if you have installed SLIC and have gotten partly into 
OS/400 (i5/OS ?) and now you cannot continue or you have gotten partly 
into the PTFs and cannot install them, you have a *MESS, a wasted 
night/weekend and a reinstall from your backup.  If you have loaded all 
the media into an image catalog, the likelihood of this kind of problem is 
much lower.  Of course, you DO need enough DASD space.

Dave Schnee,
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

- - - - - - Scott Ingvaldson wrote - - - - - -

date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:44:59 -0500
from: "Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Image Catalogs for Upgrades

Since this topic is being discussed today:

Back in February we upgraded ...

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... As far as normal PTF operations go there doesn't seem to be much 
advantage to image catalogs unless you are downloading the ePTF .bin 
files.  If you use CD's the effort is the same.