alt_clone question

[mag007]

Planning to do a ML update, and I want to try this alt_clone method.

my ML updates are located at /ML9

I am doing something like this:
smitty alt_clone
Target Disk(s) to install : hdisk0

I am not sure what I need to select for ML update.

Any help?

TIA

 

[DukeSSD]

If you didn't know, you can use google to search just the IBM website (or any other website), for example:
google for:

site:ibm.com alt_clone

this tells google to only give results for URLs that end with "ibm.com"

sadly this is necessisary because the IBM search engine is total pants.

try the first hit:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...all/doc/insgdrf/alt_disk_install_examples.htm

 

[mag007]

Correct, I am using this:
alt_disk_install -C -b update_all -l /433fixes -s /tmp/finish_alt_install hdisk3

However, this does not give me an example of SAVE/REPLACE filesets (I hope its nots commiting by default)

 

[DukeSSD]

As you are cloning to a new disk, why care if they are commited, just try it and if it doesn't work out then boot back to the original rootvg disk.

Not sure what it is for but you seem to be missing a \ before the -s

If you have the system time you could do a straight alt disk clone, boot the clone and apply the ML, reboot and test the applied ML.

 

[p5wizard]

alt_disk_install -C -b update_all -l /433fixes \
-s /tmp/finish_alt_install hdisk3

[off topic]
the \ at the end of the line simply means that the commandline is not \
finished yet and the command processor should continue reading input \
on the next line (i.e. ignore the next newline character)
[/off topic]

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[DukeSSD]

ta p5