Thanks for the tip.

It seems that the uninstaller failed to remove the contents of
/etc/tivoli/tsm/instance.info thus making the installer fail on the
next try.

I remember the old days when a TSM install was done in a minute.

Best regards

Hans Chr.


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Sparrman
<daniel.sparrman AT exist DOT se> wrote:
>
> The autonomous installler places files under /var/ibm that needs to be 
> removed incase the installation fails. I'm not infront of a machine atm so I 
> cant give you the exact path, but previously when installations failed, I 
> made sure to remove the entire directory containing configuration files 
> (telling the installer what is installed) and the log files. I believe there 
> is also files under /etc that needs to be removed, but like I said, I'm at 
> home and have no access to any production machines so I cant give you the 
> exact path.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Daniel Sparrman
>
>
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a problem. An installation failed when creating an instance and I
> decided to uninstall and start over. I removed the installation using the
> uninstall script provided. But when I ran install.bin the next time it asked
> for the password of the instance owner and then failed.
>
> So it seems something is left behind after uninstall confusing the
> installer.
>
> Any idea what it might be? Expect reinstalling AIX of course.
>
> AIX61 TL03
>
> Hans Chr.