From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 09:47:08 EDT
I haven't used a CD mksysb myself, but the AIX Installation Guide (Ch. 9)
talks of "Personal" and "Generic" mksysbs. The Generic looks like exactly
what you need:
"The second type of CD is a "generic" backup CD. This type of backup can be
used to boot any RS/6000 machine running the AIX operating system. It
contains 3 boot images and all the device and kernel packages necessary to
install any system. The mksysb image that is stored on the CD does not
require that all the devices be installed in it, because the install process
will install the needed devices for that machine from the packages on the
CD. This type of backup CD might be used to install (clone) a large number
of machines in a customer's environment. This is particularly convenient
when each machine in the system environment needs to have the same image
installed, but may not all have the same hardware configuration."
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> Sent: 29 July 2002 13:59
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: "Standard Build" of AIX 5L
>
>
> Hi *,
>
> I have a question related to Regatta's and AIX5L installs.
>
> We have a P-670 and (2) P-690's going live over the next
> several months.
> We're looking at 14 LPAR's minimum per 690, and 11 for the 670.
>
> I've been trying to come up with a slick way to do the
> installs of the O/S.
> We've discussed (in order of preference) PSSP, NIM, and LVM
> mirroring to
> install the nodes. A more recent discussion has been around
> a DVD-RAM burn
> with a "Standard Build".
>
> Say we install an LPAR with our standard AIX 5L config. We
> want to take a
> DVD mksysb. I've seen the posts on that from the past, so
> I'm pretty sure
> how to do that. The question is this - does anyone think we
> can make this
> a base install CD for all the other almost 40 nodes ?
> Granted we'll need
> to be sure we install all the device drivers for all of our
> adapters on the
> "Standard Build".
>
> Does this seem plausible, or are we perhaps setting ourselves
> up for ODM
> corruption and general system instability ?
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