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wahey
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 Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:55 am
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I kicked mine off last night around 23.30 as a silent install. The SP2 install log says verbose logging started at 5.21 this morning and stopped at 6.51? What was it doing between 23.30 and 5.21 I wonder?
Still, all in all it took around 6 hours, which is still quite long if you ask me. I wonder what factors are influencing this amount of time (apart from the obvious, such as virus scanners). I noticed that between 23.30 and before I headed off to bed the CPU was at 100% all the time.
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JGagnon
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:27 am
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| I kicked it off at 1:15 PM EDT yesterday. At 8:30 PM EDT it said it didn't have enough memory on my "C" drive which kind of surprised me (I had approx 3 GB on my "C" when I started) because I was installing on my "D" drive. Cleared some space and continued and it lasted about another hour. About 8 hours in all. Now the fun starts....What did they fix and what did they break. |
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bobano
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:34 am
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Be careful with the space requirement of the install. With one language you need about 5-6 GB, but with more language packs installed you will need about 9GB space during the installation. It copies all the 1 GB installation package to the users temp directory and to the windows installer directory as well 
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Sean Reynolds
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:57 pm
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Hi,
Here is my experience (on my play pen server)...
I enventually managed to get SP2 (Wndows) installed on WMware (for single language system). No antivirus running on all attempts.
Attempt 1: VMWare image (Dual 2.5GHz, 2Gb RAM), interactive install = error (apparently base software not installed ?) after 30 minutes. 
Attempt 2: VMWare image (Dual 2.5GHz, 2Gb RAM), silent install = fatal execution error after 5.5 hours. 
Attempt 3: VMWare (Dual 2.5GHz, 3.5Gb memory + followed *suggestion* to stop all servers apart from CMS prior to install), interactive install = 7 hours 26 minutes. 
Nice new features, another good step forward for WebI especially. However, shame about the release build. It would be very difficult for my clients to negotiate sufficient downtime with the business to justify the install. Let alone change management testing for a back-out strategy.
Eagerly awaiting FP 2.1 to see if this does indeed address the upgrade procedure.
Cheers,
Sean
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Chris Pohl
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:03 pm
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any1 hear early estimates on 2.1? I'd hope sooner, especially with the missing fixpacks
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clarence
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:14 pm
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| I was told today by support that SP2 Fix Pack 2.1 should be released at the end of September. No guarantees though. |
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The Emu
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:47 am
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| Chris Pohl wrote: | | any1 hear early estimates on 2.1? I'd hope sooner, especially with the missing fixpacks |
I've just rolled out XI3.1 FP1.6 for a new client but they are screaming for PDP in webi so want me to fast-track SP2. Not sure they want to wait until September.
To say I'm a bit nervous is an understatement.
What fixpacks does from SP1 does it cover?
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bobano
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:23 am
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As far as I know, FP 1.5 is the last one. FP 1.6 is not included in SP2. They are pretty late with this SP... 
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The Emu
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:38 am
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Thanks Bobano,
Sorry was being a bit lazy when asking that question rather than delving into the gawd awful SAP portal. 
Anyway can confirm your correct, release notes state SP2 includes up to Fix Pack 1.5. 
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Riempie
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:39 am
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| A fixpack doesn't help the very long setup of SP2, does it? You would still nee to run SP2 first and then the fixpack. Or will there be a complete new package, called SP2 FP1? |
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Nick Daniels
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:41 am
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| Riempie wrote: | | Or will there be a complete new package, called SP2 FP1? |
It'll almost certainly be Fixpack 1 for SP2. You'll need SP2 already in place.
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bobano
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:45 am
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| Riempie wrote: | | A fixpack doesn't help the very long setup of SP2, does it? You would still nee to run SP2 first and then the fixpack. Or will there be a complete new package, called SP2 FP1? |
That is what I meant below as well. I do not see how the fixpack would help us with the slow install. Maybe, the new ones will not be so slow, but you will still have the problem that you need a whole weekend downtime in a large deployment to install SP2 first, which is not really acceptable in many companies.
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Nick Daniels
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:48 am
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Hmm, if Fixpack 2.1 is supposed to address the install duration problem then I'll go back on what I said before and suggest that it will be SP2.1 which you can install without SP2 and which does an SP2 + <some fixpacks> install. And quickly. I hope 
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bobano
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:51 am
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Yes, that would be good. Lets hope for the best! 
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Schmitty
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:10 am
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Sounds like I should wait for SP2.1.
Is the length of install still multi-hours for non-virtual multi-CPU servers? |
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