Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware > #71429

Re: AIX 1.3 Network Install

Show all headers | View raw

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/c/s1-MTRFn0VM/m/oV3yBTbcyYgJ

Gereon Wenzel <wen...@ibh.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message 
news:<3E1C052C...@ibh.rwth-aachen.de>...

 > http://www.ps-2.org/ps2/html/inst/aixinst-8.html
 > describes a four Disk install from an existing AIX system.
 > This must be some kind of a networking install,
 > so it must be possible at least?
Yes, it is possible. I just read those instructions, and noticed that
it mentions two "special" diskettes - install.net (netinstall) and
netmagic. This tells me that the host machine had at least the PTF
0013 patch set installed on it, and more likely had the PTF 0024 patch
set. Until we have at least PTF 0013 available to us, a network
installation is probably going to be "just out of reach".

On the other hand, consider the original hint given to us several
months ago (see http://www.gilanet.com/Ohlandl/6152/AIX_For_PS2.html,
the last line - "The point of this is to make it clear- Install from
CD takes 19 floppies."). You need to make the 2 boot diskettes, the
install diskette, the 15 BOS diskettes and the CD-ROM support
diskette. Install the BOS and CD-ROM support, set up the CD-ROM, then
install *everything else you want* from the image files on the CD-ROM,
as Douglas has proven can be done.

Rick Ekblaw

Back to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

AIX 1.3 Network Install Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-06-10 10:00 -0500
  Re: AIX 1.3 Network Install Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-06-10 10:14 -0500
  floppy/CD install for 1.3 Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-06-11 08:14 -0500
    Re: floppy/CD install for 1.3 Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-06-11 08:19 -0500

csiph-web