Re: VIOS upgrade: Where to stick download data?

when you are logged in as padmin in VIOS you are firmly stuck on the
/home/padmin directory. When you FTP to the VIOS with padmin as the user
you alse get thrown into the /home/padmin dir. IIRC it's the only place
where you can create and cd to directories, I do remember having
/home/padmin/FW or /home/padmin/FIX directories for either firmware or
fixes...


Best of luck

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:10 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Help an idiot out. How do I get into the 'padmin home directory'?
Or, by some other shell are you talking something like oem_setup_env?



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From: Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/08/2014 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: VIOS upgrade: Where to stick download data?
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



VIOS' shell is so closed down that i usually end up either using the aix
shell or (when doing vios stuff like a fix) using the padmin home
directory
and not moving from there... Would that work for you?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:46 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am at VIOS 2.2.3.3.
I am trying to upgrade to 2.2.3.4
Signed on as padmin
Following instructions at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=hpc1vios20105f35
Section: "Applying updates from a local hard disk"
I am willing to ftp the stuff here but determining an appropriate
directory is tough. See the following:

/usr: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.
$ mkdir /viosupgrade
mkdir: 0653-357 Cannot access directory /.
/: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.
$ ls
53782.082.000.snap.pax.Z smit.log tivoli
config smit. script
ioscli.log smit. transaction
$ mkdir viosupgrade

$ cd viosupgrade
rksh: cd: 0403-019 The operation is not allowed in a restricted shell.
$ rm viosupgrade
rm: 0653-603 Cannot remove directory viosupgrade.

$ ioslevel
2.2.3.3

Opened a ticket on it and so far they've only casually glanced at what I
posted and are suggesting that I edit some shell scripts to fix a known
issue with that.
I'm trying to explain to them that I'm still in the attempting to load

the

fixes on to a work directory phase and haven't started to run any shell
scripts yet.

pmr 65743,082,000

Weird. Let's me create a directory, but not change into it, nor remove
it. Sounds like some of the ftp exit points I've written. :-)


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