A couple of OS upgrade questions -- MIDRANGE-L

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Folks:

I'm getting ready to upgrade our development partition from 7.1 to 7.2.

It's been YEARS since I did an OS upgrade myself.

First question is about installing the upgrade using a specific optical drive...

The partition is a guest on a power7 system.

I have the 7.2 media & required PTFs loaded into an image catalog on the management partition. When I load the image catalog on the management partition, a optical drive (OPT04) on the guest goes active with the contents of the image catalog.

When I do the PWRDWNSYS to start the upgrade, how do I direct the system to use OPT04 to load the OS and perform the upgrade.

I've looked at various upgrade tutorials and they all reference creating an image catalog on the partition being upgraded and using the IPLSRC parameter to point to an image catalog.

Do I just make sure OPT04 is active and specify IPLSRC(D)?

Next question is about secondary languages...

We have Japanese loaded as a secondary language on the system ... will the upgrade automatically install the secondary languages as part of the upgrade, or is this something I need to do manually after the upgrade is complete.

If I have to install the secondary languages manually, should I do so before I apply the latest CUME package, groups, & TR PTFs?

Thanks!

david

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