Before you begin to install Licensed Internal Code on a logical partition

1. Ensure you have completed the preparation tasks in the iSeries™ Information Center topic Preparing to install the i5/OS release.
2. Verify your console information in the topic Preparing your console for software installation.
3. If you have not already done so, review the information on planning for logical partitions:
   • For IBM^® System i5, System p5, and IBM eServer™ i5 and p5 systems, read the topic Planning for logical partitions .
   • For iSeries 8xx and earlier models, see Plan for logical partitions .
   Attention: This procedure causes existing data on the disk units assigned to this logical partition to be lost. Make sure you really want to perform this procedure.

Reference codes are viewable under the primary partition or the Hardware Management Console. When a reference code appears with the characters xx (such as B2xx xxxx), xx pertains to the partition identifier and xxxx pertains to a variety of other characters.

The term system refers to the logical partition on which you are performing the installation.

When installing on logical partitions, the control panel can be found either on the primary partition or the HMC.

Until you have completed the installation of the Licensed Internal Code, the information shown about the configuration of logical partitions will be incorrect. Devices attached to the buses of logical partitions are not listed until the installation is complete. Therefore, if you have logical partitions and look at your configuration from the primary partition or HMC before you complete the installation, you might see only buses and IOPs, but not the IOA and device details.