I had to "take a break" from the VIO and RHEL4; and do a production check of a server before it could be put into production use. This was annoying to say the least, but more irritating when it was made quite clear that this was of much higher importance than investigating new technology.

So, I'm sitting on disk 3 of 4 or 5 of the rhel4 install; and I think finally I can get back to it.