Running the Pre-Upgrade Program

Complete these instructions to run the pre-upgrade program.

To run the pre-upgrade program:

  1. Run the pre-upgrade program. Enter:

  2. do-pre-upgrade

    The do-pre-upgrade macro:

    This macro also compares ABS sizes to ensure that the upgrade can be performed on the existing configuration. If this cannot be determined, the macro displays the message:

    Unable to compare ABS sizes. Make sure that the ABS size of the new system is less than or equal to the ABS size of this system.

    Otherwise, attempting to run an upgrade will corrupt the file system.

    Press 'c' if you have confirmed the above: _

    If this message displays, contact your support provider to verify that the ABS sizes are compatible.

    If this message displays, an upgrade with data files in place cannot be completed. A full file-save must be performed (the file-save tape generated at the beginning of this procedure can be used), followed by an upgrade, then restoring accounts. Proceed to Upgrading with a File-Save Tape.

    If any hold files exist, it displays:

    nn spooler hold files have been copied to the SP.HFILES file

    Hold files are copied to this file and assigned a numerical item-ID, beginning with 001.

    D3 shuts down automatically.

    Executing system shutdown procedure...

    Do you wish to continue (y/n)? _

  3. Enter y.

  4. Wait for the Flush complete message to display. It may display before or after the virtual machine halted message.

    Flushing memory, boot when disk is quiescent...

    Wait for ... Flush complete...

    Flush complete.  Virtual machine pick0:LINUX halted.

    Disconnected from Virtual Machine 'pick0:LINUX'

    The D3 virtual machine is halted.

See Also

Performing the Pre-Upgrade Procedure

Loading the Pre-Upgrade Program

Preparing the Pre-Upgrade Program

Loading the D3 Package