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So you start with Fix Central..... :-)
Serious yes that's it. You'll need to find the version you're going to
and FP and service level. The version numbering there is a little less
clean that IBM i because they smash all the numbers for what we call
groups like Hiper and TCP etc etc into the version number.
Note the help text there as you can't jump from *REALLYWAYBACK to the
current level in one leap though gladly you do NOT need to do every
update either.
Anyway once you select that pick the bulk FTP download option.
You'll never have so many bffs in your life! Each update to VIOS is a
bff file (like a SAVF on IBM i) and there will be a LOT of them.
You'll need to get them copied over to VIOS with FTP usually and likely
in the OEM environment as padmin will run out of disk space.
Then you run the update command with all the correct parms. It will
process the bffs and give you a message like: "I found 794 files and One
will install, 793 will not install." GREAT yer gonna be at this a
while...... Actually after doing that one it does some setup and the
next run will do about 775 or so. There will be a bunch that don't apply
and near as I can tell they are all for other languages that I don't
speak so I'm cool with that. (Note the numbers are fictional your
numbers may be higher or lower.)
Once you've been through it a couple times it's not horrible, just
different.
Oh and don't forget to back the thing up first in case it goes "bump."
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com
On 10/21/2014 8:31 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
So, how does one find, and install, VIOS PTF's?
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
