This is just a brief example of how to install AIX 6.1 SP2. For a more thorough install, you should always follow IBMs installation documentation.

That being said, you will first have to grab the SP2 filesets at http://www-912.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/pfixpacks/61

Go through the menus and grab the fileset for level 6100-00-02-0750 from December 2007. This is what you want.

First verify that you are at SP1 or lower by running the following:

bash-3.00# oslevel -s
6100-00-01-0748

At this point, you would have probably already created a backup, just in case things go south. If not, you should probably create a mksysb of the system now.

You’ll most likely want to commit all existing filesets too by running:

bash-3.00# installp -c all
+—————————————————————————–+
Pre-commit Verification…
+—————————————————————————–+
Verifying selections…done
Verifying requisites…done
Results…

WARNINGS
——–
Problems described in this section are not likely to be the source of any
immediate or serious failures, but further actions may be necessary or
desired.

Nothing to Commit
—————–
There is nothing in the APPLIED state that needs to be committed.

<< End of Warning Section >>

+—————————————————————————–+
BUILDDATE Verification …
+—————————————————————————–+
Verifying build dates…done

You’ll want to create a table of contents by running:

bash-3.00# inutoc ./
bash-3.00# ls -lart .toc
-rw-r–r– 1 root system 40540 Jan 09 21:24 .toc

Next you’re all ready to install SP2. Pretty simple huh?

I generally use the following flags with installp, or you can even do this through ’smit install’

bash-3.00# installp -a -d ./ -Y -p all

The ‘-a’ will apply packages only, ‘-d ./’ will specify the current directory for the filesets to install, -Y will say ‘Yes’ to all licenses, -p will preview, and of course ‘all’ will apply all filesets within the ‘-d’ location. Once you preview the install, you can remove -p and do the actual installation.

bash-3.00# installp -a -d ./ -Y -p all
*******************************************************************************
installp PREVIEW: installation will not actually occur.
*******************************************************************************

+—————————————————————————–+
Pre-installation Verification…
+—————————————————————————–+
Verifying selections…done
Verifying requisites…done
Results…

WARNINGS
——–
Problems described in this section are not likely to be the source of any
immediate or serious failures, but further actions may be necessary or
desired.

Already Installed
—————–
The following filesets which you selected are either already installed
or effectively installed through superseding filesets.

invscout.rte 2.2.0.12 # Inventory Scout Runtime
bos.alt_disk_install.boot_images 6.1.0.1 # Alternate Disk Installation …
devices.pci.02105e51.diag 6.1.0.1 # Native Display Graphics Adap…
bos.rte.boot 6.1.0.1 # Boot Commands
devices.common.rspcbase.rte 6.1.0.1 # RISC PC Common Base System D…
devices.pci.02105e51.rte 6.1.0.1 # Native Display Adapter Software
X11.base.lib 6.1.0.1 # AIXwindows Runtime Libraries
X11.apps.xdm 6.1.0.1 # AIXwindows xdm Application
sysmgt.websm.apps 6.1.0.1 # Web-based System Manager App…
X11.base.rte 6.1.0.1 # AIXwindows Runtime Environment
X11.base.smt 6.1.0.1 # AIXwindows Runtime Shared Me…
bos.rte.bosinst 6.1.0.1 # Base OS Install Commands
devices.scsi.tape.diag 6.1.0.1 # SCSI Tape Device Diagnostics
devices.chrp.base.diag 6.1.0.1 # RISC CHRP Base System Device…
devices.pci.77102224.com 6.1.0.1 # PCI-X FC Adapter (77102224) …
devices.pci.14106902.rte 6.1.0.1 # 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Ad…
devices.pci.df1000f7.com 6.1.0.1 # Common PCI FC Adapter Device…

NOTE: Base level filesets may be reinstalled using the “Force”
option (-F flag), or they may be removed, using the deinstall or
“Remove Software Products” facility (-u flag), and then reinstalled.

<< End of Warning Section >>

SUCCESSES
———
Filesets listed in this section passed pre-installation verification
and will be installed.

Mandatory Fileset Updates
————————-
(being installed automatically due to their importance)
bos.rte.install 6.1.0.2 # LPP Install Commands

<< End of Success Section >>

FILESET STATISTICS
——————
75 Selected to be installed, of which:
1 Passed pre-installation verification
17 Already installed (directly or via superseding filesets)
57 Deferred (see *NOTE below)
—-
1 Total to be installed

*NOTE The deferred filesets mentioned above will be processed after the
installp update and its requisites are successfully installed.

RESOURCES
———
Estimated system resource requirements for filesets being installed:
(All sizes are in 512-byte blocks)
Filesystem Needed Space Free Space
/usr 4200 168040
/tmp 424 129760
—– ——– ——
TOTAL: 4624 297800

NOTE: “Needed Space” values are calculated from data available prior
to installation. These are the estimated resources required for the
entire operation. Further resource checks will be made during
installation to verify that these initial estimates are sufficient.
Use the option to extend filesystems (-X flag) to ensure that any
additional resources which may be needed are automatically allocated.

******************************************************************************
End of installp PREVIEW. No apply operation has actually occurred.
******************************************************************************

bash-3.00# installp -a -d ./ -Y all

Once the installation is complete, you will see something similar to the following:

0503-409 installp: bosboot verification starting…
installp: bosboot verification completed.
0503-408 installp: bosboot process starting…

bosboot: Boot image is 36418 512 byte blocks.
0503-292 This update will not fully take effect until after a
system reboot.

* * * 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.

installp: bosboot process completed.
+—————————————————————————–+
Summaries:
+—————————————————————————–+

Pre-installation Failure/Warning Summary
—————————————-
Name Level Pre-installation Failure/Warning
——————————————————————————-
ndaf.base.server 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
ndaf.base.client 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
ndaf.base.admin 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
bos.net.nfs.cachefs 6.1.0.2 Requisite failure
bos.net.nfs.adt 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
bos.mls.cfg 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
bos.adt.prof 6.1.0.2 Requisite failure
bos.adt.debug 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
X11.fnt.fontServer 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
X11.Dt.lib 6.1.0.1 Requisite failure
bos.rte.install 6.1.0.2 Already installed

Installation Summary
——————–
Name Level Part Event Result
——————————————————————————-
bos.rte.mlslib 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.suma 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.suma 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
ICU4C.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.tcp.server 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.tcp.server 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
invscout.rte 2.2.0.12 USR APPLY SUCCESS
invscout.rte 2.2.0.12 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.boot 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.boot 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
devices.common.rspcbase.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.02105e51.diag 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.02105e51.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
X11.apps.xdm 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.64bit 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.1410ec02.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.sysbr 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.sysbr 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.aixpert.cmds 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.aixpert.cmds 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.libperfstat 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.chrp.IBM.lhea.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.fcp.disk.rte 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.perfstat 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.libc 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.tty 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.pmapi.events 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.pmapi.lib 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.pmapi.pmsvcs 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.pmapi.tools 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.pmapi.tools 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.shell 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.shell 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.date 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.date 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.tune 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.tune 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.security 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.security 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.control 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.control 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
devices.chrp.IBM.lhca.rte 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.df1000f7.diag 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.tools 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.perf.tools 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.adt.include 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.serv_aid 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.serv_aid 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.mp64 6.1.0.3 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.mp64 6.1.0.3 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.wpars 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.wpars 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.acct 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.acct 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.filesystem 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.filesystem 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.SRC 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.SRC 6.1.0.1 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.archive 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.archive 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.serv_aid 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.serv_aid 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.commands 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.lvm 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.lvm 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.trace 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.sysmgt.trace 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
sysmgt.pconsole.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.common.IBM.ib.rte 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.usbif.08025002.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi. 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.00105000.com 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.chrp.base.rte 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.common.IBM.sissas.r 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.tcp.client 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.tcp.client 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.nfs.client 6.1.0.2 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.net.nfs.client 6.1.0.2 ROOT APPLY SUCCESS
X11.base.lib 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
sysmgt.websm.apps 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
X11.base.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
X11.base.smt 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.rte.bosinst 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.scsi.tape.diag 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
bos.alt_disk_install.boot_i 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.chrp.base.diag 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.df1000f7.com 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.77102224.com 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS
devices.pci.14106902.rte 6.1.0.1 USR APPLY SUCCESS

installp: * * * A T T E N T I O N ! ! !
Software changes processed during this session require this system
and any of its diskless/dataless clients to be rebooted in order
for the changes to be made effective.

You now have SP2 applied.

bash-3.00# oslevel -s
6100-00-02-0750

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