A couple more items:
1. Using PATCHIX rather than Autoinst or Autopat is a good idea. Much
easier to use.
2. I hope Scott is planning to move to 6.5 or 7.0 soon since 6.0 will soon
be off of support.
3. Installation speed seems to be most affected by the age of the tape
drive (i.e. transfer rate) and having adequate, contiguous disk space. Oh
yeah, a fast processor help, but not as much as I first believed. My
installations that include moving to a new base release and then adding a
power patch usually come in at 5-6 hours, exclusive of the backup time.
HTH,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Phillips [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Installing MPE 6.0: time estimates and gotchas?
Scott Gates <[log in to unmask]> ponders thusly:
> We're a single HP shop upgrading from MPE 5.5 to 6.0 from tape this
weekend.
> (oh, joy.) The manual is vague about the estimates for downtime. Has
anyone
> done this recently? If so, how long were you down? How long does the
power
> patch tape take?
We did the same upgrade recently. Although we allocated the entire day
(Sunday), it took us just over 6 hours including the full system backup
(which obviously may vary for you). This included loading the FOS, PP, and
Subsys tapes (again may vary for you depending on how many sub systems you
have). We did it all via Autoinst, rather than staging and patchman, which
may be quicker (I don't know, I've never used them).
> Are there any gotchas you can think of.
None that I know of, but we're not pushing the envelope on our production
server. Our test server had some issues with internet-related patches, so
if you're using Apache, Samba, or other internet-related services, be extra
diligent.
> I've heard from the grape vine that something changes with FTP? We have a
> lot of jobs that FTP. Is this going to ruin my week?
This may be one of those internet-related issues. I don't know as we don't
use FTP on our production machine, and only occasionally on our development
machine.
> Thanks in advance for any advice or info.
HTH
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