From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 05:42:14 EST
Cloning works fine from MCA to PCI, (or vice versa, or anything else you can
think of). It doesn't care in the slightest what disks you used to use,
unless you try to use maps, in which case you need a disk of the same size.
What disks were shown as available on your 43P, and which one did you
select? What sort of disk does it use on the old system?
Did you look at any of the other menu options? I'd suggest you have a look
around to familiarise yourself. You can't do much harm, since you're
installing a new image anyway.
Have a look here...
https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.techTips
...for the IBM document on cloning.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hass, Harold [mailto:hhass@FRESNO.CA.GOV]
> Sent: 27 March 2003 23:18
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Cloning problem
>
>
> I'm having a problem cloning a MCA system to a PCI box. Both
> are 4.3.3, and
> I did a mksysb -i on the old box with the idea of cloning it
> on the newer
> 43P 140. I boot to the 4.3.3 cd with the tape in and go to
> maintenance mode
> and "install from a system backup," choose the drive I want
> to install to,
> and get an error that "An invalid disk (00 08 00 2,0) was
> specified in the
> location field of the data file."
>
> It sounds like the process is picking up the SCSI ID from the tape and
> trying to use that as the install disk. I thought the whole
> idea of cloning
> was to be able to do that from platform to platform. Maybe I'm wrong.
> Anyway, does this mean that I have to set the SCSI ID to be
> the same on the
> new system? That just doesn't seem right.
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