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Operating Systems AIX Upgrade AIX 5.3 to AIX6.1 Post 302861571 by MichaelFelt on Wednesday 9th of October 2013 06:58:14 AM
Old 10-09-2013
OK. let's get back to basics.
1. make a mksysb to be able to go back in case all else fails. Possible is that this mksysb image will want two disks to reinstall to. See below.

2. Unmirrorvg does not save a copy of rootvg - it removes it. After running the command reducevg rootvg hdiskX you will have a spare disk - hdiskX.

So, now there is a spare disk.

You could do a clean install onto hdiskX - assuming the hardware support AIX 6.1 (is it Power4 or newer?). You may be missing a lot of information from the other system - but at least you know AIX installs and runs.

So, now that you know AIX 6.1 installs - then if AIX 6.1 has the files needed to support alt_disk_install from AIX 4.3.3 then use the clone option to make the rootvg copy on hdiskX (overwriting the fresh install you just did) and then continue the process to do the migration.

If AIX 6.1 does not support alt_disk_install from 4.3.3 then you will need to make a second mksysb of the current configuration (only one disk in rootvg) and when that finishes, reboot from the mysysb image and restore to the spare hdiskX.

Now you have the same AIX installed twice (clone_copy the old slow way). Now reboot again using the AIX 6.1 media and follow the migration path to update to keep the information lost by the fresh install.

I hope this is all fairly clear - AND - that it helps! Smilie
 

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wmsetbg(1x)                                                                                                                            wmsetbg(1x)

NAME
wmsetbg - sets the background on the X11 display SYNOPSIS
wmsetbg [-display] [--version] [--help] [{-b|--back-color} color] [{-t|--tile}|{-e|--center}|{-s|--scale}|{-a|--maxscale} image] [{-d|--dither}|{-m|--match}] [-u|--update-wmaker] [{-D|--update-domain} domain] [{-c|--colors} cpc] [{-p|--parse} texture] [{-w|--workspace} workspace] DESCRIPTION
wmsetbg reads the specified image (XPM, PNG, jpeg, Tiff, raw PPM) and puts it on the root window. It can either scale the image or tile it to make it fit the root window. Window Maker uses this command internally to set the root window image on start up. OPTIONS
-a|--maxscale scales the specified image preserving its aspect ratio -b|--back-color the specified color is used as the background color for the texture. Window Maker temporarely sets the background to this color while loading and processing the texture. You can specify colors using their X11 names or as an RGB tiplet (either as "rgb:RR/GG/BB" or "#RRGGBB") (reference to appropriate manpage should be here). In the later case color is a quoted string. -e|--center centers the specified image -t|--tile tiles the specified image -s|--scale scales the specified image (default) -d|--dither dithers colors -m|--match matches colors -u|--update-wmaker updates the Window Maker defaults database -D|--update-domain updates the specified domain database -c|--colors colors per channel to use -p|--parse parses the specified texture as a proplist style texture -w|--workspace update background only for the specified workspace --help print a help message --version print version number SEE ALSO
wmaker(1x) AUTHOR
This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>. Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>. wmsetbg was written by Dan Pascu <dan@windowmaker.info> January 1999 wmsetbg(1x)
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