Perry Shindle wrote:

> Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-bee-em.com> wrote in message
> news:<412b75c0_3@news3.prserv.net>...
>> The download of FP7 is good. It's presence will be published shortly.
>> Feel free to download and use it.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Serge
>
> Serge -
>
> If all the FP7 images are good I still don't understand why they are
> all significantly smaller than the corresponding FP6 images. Is FP6 a
> pre-req for FP7?

No. You do not need FP6 before applying FP7. You can go directly from
8.1 to FP7 with no intervening fixpaks.

In FP7, much of the online help has been relocated from the base
products to the Documentation product. So it has been removed from the
fixpaks. This is a significant amount of savings for the fixpak.

If you do not install the Documentation product, the default should be
to go to the IBM websites to get the documentation - again, saving some
significant diskspace at the expense of some bandwidth (only when you
need it, unlike the diskspace which is used even if you don't need it
at that time).

To allow significant flexibility, you can install the documentation
inside your intranet, and then point all your admin clients to the
central documentation server - using your intranet bandwidth (which
should be cheaper/faster than internet bandwidth) at the cost of some
centralised diskspace. Or you can install the documentation locally
for the ultimate in speed at the cost of all that local diskspace (on
each machine that needs/wants it). All up to you. Of course this is
documented ... in the documentation. :-)