Originally posted by: tech100

I downloaded 6 iso images
VIOS_2.2.1.1-FP25.v1-6.iso

I put all those images into local directory /home/updates on VIOS and can't update all in one step...

$ updateios -accept -install -dev /home/updates

0503-003 geninstall: The specified device /home/updates
is not a valid device or file.
I heard VIOS is now much clever and can be upgraded directly from iso images (not recording them to a disk or mounting on the system manually)

How do you handle such upgrade process?

Is it possible to download from IBM one dvd image instead of 6 cd images?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Why you download the iso images? Simply download the package (unflag download as iso image) put them in /home/padmin/updates (remember to put all files in /home/padmin/subdir) and then launch the updateios command.
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Originally posted by: PontiacGeronimo

I have dealt with iso images in the following way:

one by one, mounted them using loopmount command and one by one copied content to a local directory on VIOS using bffcreate command.
regards.
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