clone install fails

[aix...@yahoo.com]

doing alt_disk install with mksysb from source to different target
system
(new box)

getting this failure..... any clues (hdisk0 is new disk)
source mksysb was done with only -X as parameter
is -i -m a requirement when cloning an install to new target?

alt_disk_install -d /clone/tascrootvg.fri hdisk0

Restoring /image.data from mksysb image.
Checking disk sizes.
Creating cloned rootvg volume group and associated logical volumes.
Creating logical volume alt_hd5
0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request.
There are not enough free partitions or not enough physical
volumes
to keep strictness and satisfy allocation requests. The
command
should be retried with different allocation characteristics.
0516-822 mklv: Unable to create logical volume.
0505-115 alt_disk_install: mklv failed to create logical volume hd5.
Cleaning up.

thanks in advance

[Dave]

Did the original box have a mirrored rootvg?
Check and edit the image.data file and make sure that all the
filesystems are set to one copy, then adjust LP and PP numbers
accordingly.

[aix...@yahoo.com]

will there be an image.data on the backup if the -i flag was not
present for the backup?

[aix...@yahoo.com]

yes original box has mirrored rootvg

all filesystems are already one copy

adjust LP and PP numbers???
what do you mean?
only see a PP size

are you talking about the image.data file on the mksysb backup, or the
new target system?

[Markus Baertschi]

The one in the mksysb you try to install. The easiest solution is to
edit the image.data ile on the source system and take an new mksysb
(without -i).

You could unpack the mksysb (restore), edit the image.data and repack it
(backup), but this takes a lot of temporary disk space.

Markus

[aix...@yahoo.com]

Actually fixed this by selecting 2 target disks for the mirrored vg
mksysb backup I was cloning. Then everything worked fine... no
image.data alterations

fyi.... selecting targets is a little different in AIX 5.2 vs AIX 5.3

for AIX 5.2 I used alt_disk_install with hdiskx hdisky (space
delimited)

for AIX 5.3 I used alt_disk_mksysb with "hdiskx hdisky" (did not
work without the double quotes)