Completing the SMIT installation and reading the status messages

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The system activity and actions that you must take after the installation process has begun is described.

Perform the following steps:
  1. When you press Enter to start the installation, the COMMAND STATUS screen displays. As the installation proceeds, a series of messages display. The amount of time that the installation takes varies depending on your system and the software you are installing and updating.
    Note: The system might prompt you to insert the volume of the installation media, with a message similar to the following: 
    Mount volume 2 on /dev/cd0.
Press the Enter key to continue.

    When this message displays, insert the specified media and press Enter.

    When the installation finishes, the Command: status field on the COMMAND STATUS screen changes to OK or failed. OK indicates that the installation ran to completion, although some filesets may not have installed successfully. The failed status means that there was a problem with the installation. Although a preview installation always finishes with an OK status, always check the summaries.

    For information about error messages, refer to Interpreting installation-related system and error messages.

  2. When the installation halts or finishes, the screen returns to the top of the list of messages that display during installation. You can review the message list as described in the next step, or you can exit SMIT and review the smit.log file (/smit.log or /home/user_id/smit.log).
  3. Review the message list for error messages on software products or service updates that may not have been successfully installed. Use the following procedure to correct any errors in the installation:
    1. Look at the pre- and post-installation summaries at the end of the message list to see whether any installation failure occurred.
    2. Use the message list to determine problems and which software products or service updates were involved. For example, space limits might have been exceeded or the requisites might not have been met for some software. The system lists how much extra space is needed and which requisite software products or service updates to install.
    3. Any product that is marked as FAILED, BROKEN, or CANCELLED can be reinstalled after the condition that caused the failure has been corrected. You do not need to reinstall any service update or software product that was marked as SUCCESS in the Installp Summary report. If you need to perform the installation again, change installation settings as appropriate. For example, if requisites were missing, set AUTOMATICALLY install requisite software? to yes. If there was not enough space to complete the installation, set EXTEND file systems if space needed? to yes.

      If you need to install again and you have AIX BOS multivolume media, insert volume 1 of the AIX product DVDs. Press F3 to return to the previous screen, then restart the installation. See Interpreting installation-related system and error messages for information about bosboot command errors that may occur while the installation program is running, and about recovery procedures for these errors.

      Attention: If the system log files show the following message, indicating that a reboot is required, perform the reboot as indicated in Step 6: 
      * * *  A T T E N T I O N  * * *
System boot image has been updated. You should reboot the 
system as soon as possible to properly integrate the changes 
and to avoid disruption of current functionality.
    4. If the installation was interrupted (for example, a power failure), you might need to use the cleanup procedure before continuing. Press F10 (or Esc+0) to exit SMIT, and refer to Cleaning up optional software products and service updates.
    5. If the software has been installed successfully, and you have no other software to install, go to Step 4.

      If you have additional software to install from a different installation media, remove the media that is in that drive and insert the new media.

      Press F3 (or Esc+3) to return to the previous screen and continue installing the software product or service update.

  4. Press F10 (or Esc+0) to exit SMIT.
  5. Remove all installation media from the drives.
  6. When you are directed, reboot your system by typing: # shutdown -Fr