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installt



PURPOSE

Installs Licensed Program Products (LPP) or restore images from tape media.

SYNTAX


            +- -d /dev/rst4 -+   +- -l logfile -+
installt ---|                |---+- -q ---------+---|
            +-- -d device ---+   +- -u ---------+


Note:  This command is for the PS/2 only.

DESCRIPTION

The installt command installs, from either the Internal Tape Backup Unit
(ITBU), or 6157 tape drive, separately installable portions of IBM LPPs that
are distributed on tape, or user generated tapes created in the proper format.

The installt command reads a "table of contents" (TOC) file from the install
media and generates a menu from which the user can select the entries that are
to be installed.  For each entry selected, installt invokes either the installp
command or the restore command to perform the actual installation.  The
decision on which command to invoke is based on information supplied with the
entry name in the TOC file.  The installt command will install all of the
entries selected by the user without prompting from installp, however, the user
may still be prompted for input required by specific LPP installation scripts.

Tapes used with installt must be in a special format, described in Appendix D
of the Programming Tools and Interface Guide.

When installing backup images that were created with relative file path names,
you must be in the directory where the files are to be installed.  installp
images do not require you to be in any particular directory during
installation.

FLAGS

-d device   Install from the device specified.  This device must be a no-rewind
            device.  The default is /dev/rst4 (Internal Tape Backup Unit).

-l logfile  Append output from installp to the log file specified using the tee
            command.  The log file is initially removed, and output is appended
            to the log file for each invocation of installp.  The default is no
            log file.




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-q          Install all of the packages on the tape without using the menu
            interface.  All packages are loaded and use the default fstore
            values found in the TOC on the tape media.  The default is to use
            the menu interface.

-u          Specify user created tape.  The first tape file on a user created
            tape is the TOC.  The default is that this flag is not specified
            and the TOC is the second tape file.

EXAMPLES

  1. To invoke installt using the menu interface and an ITBU tape.

      installt

  2. To use installt without the menu interface, using a 6157 Streaming Tape,
    and writing log information to a file:

      installt -d/dev/rmt4 -q -l/tmp/logfile

  3. To use installt on an ITBU tape device, and the tape does not contain the
    initial BOS tape file:

      installt -u

FILES

/dev/rmt4
/dev/rst4
/etc/fstore

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "backup,"  "restore,"  "installp," and "tee."

See "Installing and Updating an LPP" in Programming Tools and Interfaces Guide.

See "Appendix D - installt Command" in Programming Tools and Interfaces Guide.

See "Installing Additional Licensed Program Products" in Installing and
Customizing the Operating System for PS/2.














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