Curtis wrote...

>Thanks to my PSS dollars at work, HP will be coming out to upgrade me
>from 5.5 to 6.0.  The interesting thing about it -- aside that for once,
>it is not ME doing the upgrade [whoohoo!] -- is that they are insisting
>that the process requires an INSTALL instead of an UPDATE.  ("'Curioser
>and curioser'", said Alice".)

Could it be that they are not planning to bring 6.0 by using INSTALL,
but by using the HPINSTAL utility, which allows updating a local *or*
remote system with MPE/iX CDROM media? The tool name sounds like install,
but the process is in fact using and ISL> UPDATE from CSLT during the
second phase (which is the only phase requiring exclusive access to the
system and thus tends to reduce the downtime for an MPE/iX OS update
quite a bit).

The HPINSTAL procedure is not a "magic secret". You can find details in
the System Software Maintenance Manual (e.g. on docs.hp.com) in sections
"Update with CD-ROM" as well as "Modify Remote System".

Lars.