[pedz]

I was not sure where to post things like this.

I was trying to use installios. As usual, I'm doing something sorta weird and it did not work at first -- or second. It took me a little while to track down everything.

First, if your login shell is not ksh (yuck!), the script gets confused. You need to add:

#!/bin/ksh

at the top line of the script.

Second, it copies the mksysb image from the cd or distribution over to the NIM file system. The problem is that mksysb is bigger than 1G. On the default, out of the box, set up, the limits for file sizes is set to 1G. So, the script dies and it was not obvoius to me what happened.

To fix this, edit /etc/security/limits. There are a number of choices at this point. You can edit the stanza for root or you can edit the default stanza. I just changed the default stanza; changed the fsize line to -1 (unlimited).

The other thing about the script: it is more intellegent than it first appears. There are two variables in the script that I would have made prompted fields. The first is PROGRAM. It is currently set to installios. It could be set to $( basename $0 ) -- then it would pick up the name of the script. The reason I mention it is it is the prefix for all of the nim resources that it creates. I changed it from installios to vios. So, I have NIM resources like vios-mksysb. Makes more sense to me.

Second, it assumes you want to put things in /export/installios. In my case, I have my nim stuff in /usr/nimfs. Changing the FILESYSTEM variable to point to where you want the files to go works as you would hope. If FILESYSTEM is set to /dog/foo, then the mksysb will be put into /dog/foo/mksysb/installios-mksysb (if PROGRAM is not also changed).

Anyhow... I hope this helps someone.

Good luck