Re: New 520 - Does the OS come pre-installed?

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

Yeah, my experience was ugly, but I was also pushing the bleeding edge 
with the JS12 blade and knew that I was in for some fun.  Since that 
last round of firmware/OS updates in June, the blade has been about as 
reliable as the old 520 I had.  I had a VIOS issue a few weeks back and 
the length of time it took to recover was self inflicted.  But I do 
think that an install "wizard" would be a step forward as long as it 
included a boatload of diagnostic tools so the stuff that Aaron 
experienced could be quickly diagnosed and corrected.  I don't care if 
the end user ignores every caution that you give them prior to starting 
an install, your install procedure should *assume* that the end user 
ignored your instructions and should guide them (gently) through doing 
it the correct way.  I sit my wife in front of my installer wizard (she 
about as close to a Luddite as there is) and watch to see what she does 
wrong at every step and then I rewrite the routine to anticipate those 
missteps.

But I don't think the i is *supposed* to be a user installed system, 
like the HP you get at Costco.

Pete


Jeff Crosby wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> I cannot help you, but I have to say something.
>
> I am NOT looking forward to the day when my company needs to replace the 520
> with Power i equipment.  The amount of trouble people like you and Lukas and
> Pete had and are having getting new machines set up and running gives me the
> willies.  I want simplicity, not this new complexity being introduced.
>
> Just my $.02.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>   
> > I am now in section "Initial IBM i OS configuration" (
> > http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/GettingStarted).
> >
> > Upon first logging in with QSECOFR/QSECOFR it requires you to change the
> > QSECOFR password.  No issue, I did that and proceeded to the next step of
> > putting the system into manual mode, was prompted by the DST logon prompt,
> > and I entered QSECOFR and the *new* password.  Well, it didn't take the new
> > password, so I tried QSECOFR as the password - no go.  And now it is
> > telling
> > me "Id disabled" when I try to log in.  When I do an F1 on that message to
> > get more info it just takes me to the help for the screen, so I don't even
> > have a message id to do a search on to see how to resolve the issue.  This
> > is the only page I could find, but it requires that I am able to log in to
> > DST to enable a DST profile - thanks IBM:
> >
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/rzamh/rzamhenabledevidsdst.htm
> >
> > Help.
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
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