Useful information for network installers

[BOICE GINA LYNN -R CC]

In article <1990Dec2.023618.16600 at odi.com> benson at odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>After much fuming and fussing, I've mostly complete installing a
>machine over the net. Here are some hints.

I have also found that the network installation documented for aix is
a bit cumbersome.  This is the method I use.  I load bos from 1/4 tape
(I have a 1/4 drive I can move around)  Next I load bosnetC and bsmEn_US
from diskette.  I configure the network and mount a remote disk with all
the lpp's on it.  I then run a script to install the lpp's I want on the
machine.  This whole process takes less than 2 hours.  With 30 6000's time
is a big factor.  This also allows for many machines to be loading the lpp's
at the same time.
 
I recently pulled 3002 off of tape and also have it arranged on disk as 
lpp's.  I load the software as I did above.  This works just fine.

Gina Boice
Colorado School of Mines
gboice at mines.colorado.edu   Internet
gboice at mines.bitnet         Bitnet