Getting Help During Installations

Getting Help During Installations

During an installation session, you can use the help command from any menu to get information about almost every Inst command and command argument. Enter the help command alone to get general instructions on using online help. Enter the help command followed by an argument to get help on the topic specified in the argument. Table A-1 gives a complete list of topics for which help is available.

This sample illustrates a help entry and the information that it provides:

Inst> help upgrade 
                    upgrade U
"upgrade" is a keyword argument for the "install", "keep", "list", and "step" commands. For example, "install U" requests that all subsystems that are currently installed and have newer counterparts in the software distribution be installed...

Understanding installation terminology and the Inst installation model is very important to using Inst successfully. To get this information, issue this command during an installation session:

Inst> help overview