That does help, thanks to you all. I'll try a direct upgrade to TL2 without the following SP's. Maybe an alt_clone, if the storage admin manages to provide a disk... ;-)
I'm about to update a 7.1 box from 7100-00-03-1115 to the latest level 7100-02-01-1245. Question: do I have to install all steps between them or can I just download the latest level and do a...