Re: 5.4.5 to 7.1 upgrade questions using IMGCLG ?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If there are sufficient disk arms on the system, (more than 6 but 
preferably 12 or so) then Image catalogs will be faster than physical 
DVD by quite a bit.  Lacking the disk arms, if you can get someone to 
cut you a distribution tape the tape drive will be faster than the DVD 
by a good margin.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 2/27/2013 7:33 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> Is there any big difference in installation time using catalogs 'vs'
> physical media.
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Eric Lehti<elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > >  Jack, I used image catalogs in our recent upgrade to V7R1 from V5R4M5.
> > >  > From your question I assume you are aware of these tasks to perform:
> > >
> > >    - Download and run the IBM Pre-upgrade Verification tool for i5/OS
> > >
> > >  https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=ipv
> > >  t&S_PKG=dl3&lang=en_US&cp=UTF-8
> > >
> > >  - Upgrading or replacing software using automatic installation:
> > >  http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=
> > >  %2Frzahc%2Fautoins.htm
> > >
> > >  --