CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (05/27/91)
Has anyone successfully done this? I have an RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.1.5. I made an image backup via SMIT startup with the system backup option. Can I install this image onto an RS/6000 530? Thanks in advance for any informatin. Ching Shih shih@cithex.bitnet shih@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu
jaime@excalibur.austin.ibm.com (05/29/91)
In article <91146.235414CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: > From: CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU > Subject: Install an image backup onto a machine of different model > > Has anyone successfully done this? > > I have an RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.1.5. I made an image backup via > SMIT startup with the system backup option. Can I install this image > onto an RS/6000 530? > > Thanks in advance for any informatin. > > Ching Shih > shih@cithex.bitnet > shih@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu This should work without any problems at all. The use of the system image tape from smit should transport across all machine types. Jaime Vazquez Voice: 512-838-4829 or t/l 678-4829 AIX Technical Support Fax: 512-838-4851 or t/l 678-4851 IBM AWD-Austin/2830 6000: jaime@excalibur.austin.ibm.com InterNet: jaime@austin.vnet.ibm.com or jaime%austin@vent.ibm.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- <Standard disclaimers apply.>
markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) (05/30/91)
In article <8012@awdprime.UUCP>, jaime@excalibur.austin.ibm.com writes: > In article <91146.235414CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, > CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: > > > > I have an RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.1.5. I made an image backup via > > SMIT startup with the system backup option. Can I install this image > > onto an RS/6000 530? > > This should work without any problems at all. The use of the system > image tape from smit should transport across all machine types. > > Jaime Vazquez Voice: 512-838-4829 or t/l 678-4829 > AIX Technical Support Fax: 512-838-4851 or t/l 678-4851 The reverse of making 530 tapes to take to the 320 did not work for us. Something about the internal hard disk controller on the 320. Code for that driver was not supplied with 530 build tapes. Or at least that was the story were were told. :-) We had to re-install on the 320 from system tapes sent for that machine from Austin (or where ever they make install tapes). -- Mark Whetzel My comments are my own, not my company's. Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International, A Litton/Dresser Company DOMAIN addr: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com VOICE: (713) 963-2446 UUNET address: uunet!airgun!markw
shaggy@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com (David J. Kleikamp) (05/30/91)
In article <963@airgun.wg.waii.com> markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) writes: |> |>The reverse of making 530 tapes to take to the 320 did not work for us. |>Something about the internal hard disk controller on the 320. Code for |>that driver was not supplied with 530 build tapes. |> |>Or at least that was the story were were told. :-) |> |>We had to re-install on the 320 from system tapes sent for that machine |>from Austin (or where ever they make install tapes). I don't know where you heard that, but the tapes send out of IBM (They are actually shipped out of Boulder.) are not different for 320's or 530's or any other specific model. The same tape that installs on a 530 should install on a 320 as well. |>Mark Whetzel My comments are my own, not my company's. |>Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International, |>A Litton/Dresser Company DOMAIN addr: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com |>VOICE: (713) 963-2446 UUNET address: uunet!airgun!markw -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David J. "Shaggy" Kleikamp dave@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com The content of this posting is independent of official IBM position. External: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!kleikamp.austin.ibm.com!dave
CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (05/30/91)
The installation of an image backup of an RS/6000 530 to an RS/6000 320 might NOT work, if the 320 has no enough disk space to hold the stuff of the 530. Otherwise, it seems to work for me. Ching Shih shih@cithex.bitnet shih@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu
graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat) (05/31/91)
CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: >The installation of an image backup of an RS/6000 530 to an RS/6000 320 >might NOT work, if the 320 has no enough disk space to hold the stuff >of the 530. Otherwise, it seems to work for me. That's fairly obvious, but you can be selective... I use a 730 with 2x800Mb to produce an image for 320's with 320Mb. I have worked out what I want on the 320's, and install only that on the 730. Since the 730 has 2 paging spaces, I deactivate hd61 and temporarily remove it from /etc/swapspaces. I update common config files, eg /etc/hosts /etc/security/login.cfg.. Then I do a 'mkszfile', and edit .fs.size to be the filesystem sizes that I want on the 320 (the're a wee bit smaller), then run mksysb to a disk file (tape would also work, but I install the 320's via the network). Using smit 'make system backup' will produce errors when installing since the filesystems are too big to fit the smaller disk - the file .fs.size is the first file on the install image and sets filesystem size. When that's done, I restore hd61 and install all the rest of AIX and products onto the 730, making bff images in /usr/lpp.install in case I decide that the 320's are missing something after all. That's an overview, there's a little bit of detail missing *B^) -- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all, Computer Aided Design Centre, Fax: +64-9-366-0702 / our bodies & our wits School of Engineering, Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 / But we waste time, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \ so time & we are quits