Re: AW: Slashdiot article about P6

Similar to Joes, during our upgrade to V5R4 from image vcatalog I got "bit"
by a PTF I missed and the install "hung".  Finally got the machine powered
down brought it up, 5722999 and SS1 are at V5R4 everything else at V5R3.
Did a reboot from the V5R4 CD's and voila....well ti was a FEW hours but
anyways....

On 1/8/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Gibbs
>
> As Scott mentioned ... I was referring to the Linux upgrade process.
> Once installed and configured, Linux works fine for me.
>
> In contrast to System i ... (with the exception of 3rd party hardware
> vendor lies and user error) I've *NEVER* had a problem upgrading i5/os
> (os/400).

And the system is highly "SUT" (stupid user tolerant).  I misread the
documentation, and attempted to load an entire set of cumes and group PTFs
at one time.  The link loader blew up; I had loaded too many PTFs.

A failure of this magnitude on just about any other operating system would
involve at the very least rebuilding the machine from scratch and probably
reinstalling all software and reloading the last data backup as well.

With OS/400, I called IBM and they walked me through "slipping the LIC" -
basically, reloading the operating system UNDERNEATH all the application
data.  After about an hour and a half, I was good to go without touching a
single backup tape.

I then reapplied my cumes and groups according to the directions, and
didn't
get a hiccup.

Joe


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