4.9.1 Answers
Provided here are some exercises you may wish to perform:
- Try to the run installp command twice at the same time on one
system and see what happens.
- You have just installed a new release of the operating system, determine
the operating system level of your system.
- What is a fileset, package, bundle? Explain.
- Your root file system is behaving strangely; therefore, you decide to do
a preserve install. However, you do not want to overwrite your /var file
system. What can be done to prevent this? Perform the preserve install and save
your /var file system as is.
- Your installation is failing repeatedly because of missing
prerequisites. How will you use preview option to obtain all the prerequisite
information in SMIT?
- What are the methods available to you to upgrade your system to the
latest release/maintenance level yet minimize the downtime?
- If prerequisites from two install medias point to each other, what is
the best method that you can use to complete the installation without errors?
- What are the different methods of installation available to you for
installing a base operating system?
- Use the installation assistant to set the time and paging size on your
system.
- Update your system to bring all the filesets to the latest fix level.
- IBM has just announced a new fix pack. Obtain the fixpack from the IBM
FTP site and apply the fixes to upgrade your system to the latest fix level.
- Determine the latest fix level on your system.
- Find out the latest fix level of a licensed program, filesets, and so
on.
- How do you use the installp command, and what are the different
options that are available to you?
- You have just downloaded a latest fix from IBM, but before you go into
production, you want to test run the system with the latest fix pack installed.
Use the alternate disk install to make a replica of your system and test out
the changes with the fix pack installed.
- Find out what are the different filesets you have and their state using
the installp command. Next, commit any applied software and remove any
fileset that you think is not required. Also, apply a fix pack and then reject
the changes made by this fixpack.
- Download an individual fix and use SMIT to install the fix.
- Download any package from your installation media to your disk, create a
new table of contents for the /usr/sys/inst.images directory, and install the
package using SMIT.
Chapter 5. Object Data
Manager