AIX

Hi Bakunin still saying thanks for taking time to reply...
I'm working at a multinational company and AIX is installed on a server in other country, I'm accessing via telnet, so I have to ask them to install the base level fileset for me or there is other solution that I can do it myself ?

Yes, that seems to be the most feasible solution. Most probably the medium with the filesets lurks around somewhere near the physical location of the system anyways.

Hardly. First off, installing software requires to be "root". I haven't asked, but you might not be allowed to become root given the circumstances.

If you can become root they do not have to install the software, just mount the media so that you can access it. In this case you can install it yourself:

1) change into the directory the packages reside in. The directory has to be writeable, otherwise copy the packages somewhere else.

2) create a contents-file:

Code:

inutoc .

This creates a content-file in the current directory named ".toc". It is clear-text, but an somewhat awkward format. There is documentation about what means what on the net.

3) start SMIT to install the packages

Code:

smitty install_all

This brings up a screen with the question where to install from. Enter "." (current directory) and in the upcoming screen select the packages (use PF4 to create/select from a list).

After finishing your installation you can delete the package-files and the .toc-file.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Hi Bakunin and Sorry for being late to reply ...
Thanks a lot, you make things clear for me, but I wasn't able to contact them so the project manager gave me access to 6.1 version of AIX ... I'm trying to install the fileset: bos.adt.syscalls.5.3.0.40 there, by this command :

Code:

/usr/lib/instl/sm_inst installp_cmd -a -Q -d 'test' -f '_all_latest'  '-c'  '-g' '-X' '-G' '-V 2' '-Y'

test=the directory which contains the fileset
But I'm getting this error :

Code:

Input device or directory does not exist

Any suggestion? I can't pinpoint the error's source

As a wild guess, change -d 'test' to specify a full pathname for the directory; not just the final component of the directory.

I tried the full pathname but it didn't work , it gave the same error ..