alt_disk_install question: upgrading AIX 4.3.3 -> 5.2

[Jurjen Oskam]

Hi there,

I'm planning to upgrade an AIX 4.3.3 box to AIX 5.2. I have already
created a working mksysb-CD of 5.2. The 4.3.3 machine has a rootvg consisting
of two mirrored harddisks, hdisk0 and hdisk1.

The method I'm planning to use to upgrade the 4.3.3 machine is:

- break the rootvg mirror, remove hdisk1 from rootvg
- use alt_disk_install to install the 5.2 mksysb-image on hdisk1
- reboot into 5.2 from hdisk1


My question is: do I need to install the alt_disk_install filesets from
the 5.2 system on the 4.3.3 system? (These are bos.alt_disk_install.boot_images
5.2.0.11, bos.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.12 and
bos.msg.en_US.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.0)


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[Iain]

Jurjen Oskam <joskam@quadpro.stupendous.org> wrote in message news:<slrnbmj5j3.pe4.joskam@calvin.quadpro.stupend ous.org>...

> Hi there,
>
> I'm planning to upgrade an AIX 4.3.3 box to AIX 5.2. I have already
> created a working mksysb-CD of 5.2. The 4.3.3 machine has a rootvg consisting
> of two mirrored harddisks, hdisk0 and hdisk1.
>
> The method I'm planning to use to upgrade the 4.3.3 machine is:
>
> - break the rootvg mirror, remove hdisk1 from rootvg
> - use alt_disk_install to install the 5.2 mksysb-image on hdisk1
> - reboot into 5.2 from hdisk1
>
>
> My question is: do I need to install the alt_disk_install filesets from
> the 5.2 system on the 4.3.3 system? (These are bos.alt_disk_install.boot_images
> 5.2.0.11, bos.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.12 and
> bos.msg.en_US.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.0)

No, but you do need to install the AIX 4.3.3 alt_disk_install
filesets, and make sure they are recent (at least ML10)

Iain.

[Jurjen Oskam]

In article <a0a1407b.0310020248.42bd7a00@posting.google.com >, Iain wrote:

>> My question is: do I need to install the alt_disk_install filesets from
>> the 5.2 system on the 4.3.3 system? (These are bos.alt_disk_install.boot_images
>> 5.2.0.11, bos.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.12 and
>> bos.msg.en_US.alt_disk_install.rte 5.2.0.0)

> No, but you do need to install the AIX 4.3.3 alt_disk_install
> filesets, and make sure they are recent (at least ML10)

Thanks for your reply. The procedure was performed about two weeks ago, and
I installed the 5.2 alt_disk_install filesets on the 4.3.3 machine, and
it worked fine.

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Jurjen Oskam

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