Re: installing v6

From: David Foxwell

This is deadly serious.
It is incredible the number of threads concerning installation problems.

I've talked to people who have done dozens of installs over the last six
months.  We just created yet another ghost image for our upcoming technical
conference.  Basically, our lab coordinator installed from disk and then
told it to update itself overnight.  The next morning he looked at it and it
was done.

Although it's certainly not 100% bulletproof, I've looked at the list and I
sense that the product is getting more stable with every release, rather
than less stable.  I'm not sure what Joel's issues are; but as Joel states,
there's not a lot of information there, just that it was "impossible to
install".

Anyway, you might consider downloading all the patches ahead of time.  This
will make it a bit quicker to apply the upgrades to multiple machines; you
won't have to download multiple gigabytes for each machine.  It is a tiny
bit more complicated, but IBM has been pretty good about documenting the
process.

Joe