Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello to all,
I am working for a long time on System i, so we now have Power Systems I have to do things
that are not very familiar to me :-)..
I am Installing a VIOS 2.1 Server and tried to do the update, found instructions below and tried to do so
Applying updates from a local hard disk
The current level of the VIOS must be 2.1.0
1. Login to the VIOS as the user padmin.
2. Create a directory on the Virtual I/O Server.
$ mkdir <directory_name>
3. Using ftp, transfer the update file(s) to the directory you created.
4. Commit previous updates, by running the updateios command
$ updateios -commit
5. Apply the update by running the updateios command
$ updateios -accept -install -dev <directory_name>
6. Verify that update was successful by checking results of the updateios command and running the ioslevel command. It should indicate the ioslevel is now V2.1.1.10 FP-21.
$ ioslevel
7. To load all changes, reboot the VIOS as User padmin
$ shutdown -restart
I created a directory named update and FTPed the downloade iso files to that directory
(a normal thing for system i is to use image catalogs and put the iso filles in there)
looks like this now

1. cd update
2. ls

u825483v1.iso u825483v2.iso u825483v3.iso u825483v4.iso

but after i tried
$ updateios -accept -install -dev /home/padmin/update
or
$ updateios -accept -install -dev /update

0503-003 geninstall: The specified device /home/padmin/update
is not a valid device or file.
$
So what is wrong, do I have to do something with the .iso file.. and why is this for rookies not mentioned ???

So I did it with CDs now, but i do not want to burn Cds anymore...

Thak you in advance for helping

Lola
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Originally posted by: esv

> sysback wrote:
> Hello to all,
> I am working for a long time on System i, so we now have Power Systems I have to do things
> that are not very familiar to me :-)..

welcome to the club, hope you recover soon from the iSeries shock ;)

> I am Installing a VIOS 2.1 Server and tried to do the update, found instructions below and tried to do so
>

wow, way to go....

>

> I created a directory named update and FTPed the downloade iso files to that directory
> (a normal thing for system i is to use image catalogs and put the iso filles in there)
here, instead of uploading the iso files, you need to download the contents of the iso files, either extract the files on your local pc, then transfer the contents of them into the directory or download the fixes themselves from IBM.

I grabbed this from the VIO support site.
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/vios/download/fixpack.html

ftp ftp.software.ibm.com Name: anonymous Password: ftp ftp> cd software/server/vios/fixes/fixpack21121 ftp> lcd <directory> ftp> binary ftp> prompt ftp> mget * ftp> quit

but since you already downloaded the iso files, it might be faster just to extract the contents of them in your local workstation, then send the fixes to the VIO server.
best regards,
esv.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thank you for this....
by the way, the VIOS works an a I5 Os 6.1 Partition is running totally virtual on it.... :-) but still these criptical commands to o something in the VIOS are strange for me
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Originally posted by: giraffedata

It's amazing IBM doesn't fix this. I had the same problem today, and can see that it happens like this: In the web dialog for downloading fixes, there is a box to check for "download files as an ISO image." There is no guidance on whether to check the box or not; the question means nothing to an inexperienced user who is just following directions. For whatever reason, I thought it would be a good thing to check, so I did. When you do that, the subsequent directions quite clearly tell you to download 5 .iso files, put them in a directory, and point updateios to it.

Compounding the problem, of course, is that the message "is not a valid device or file" says little about what the problem is.

I figured out that the "ISO" checkbox is so you can create CDs and install from those, whereas if you want to do the pure download thing, you leave it unchecked.
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Originally posted by: ThomasJO

Boy am I glad I stumbled upon this thread. Would it be too much trouble to add another section to the instructions for dealing with the ISOs? Sheesh!
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