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  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

#71428 — AIX 1.3 Network Install

https://ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/AIX_PTF0024_U436295.html#SPE-U400005

SMALL PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS (U400005):

IX36893 A new install option has been added to install over a network.

                               NETWORK INSTALL
     Requirements:

          2 Boot diskettes (Generic as supplied from 1.3, the Non-SCSI
            boot diskettes will not function properly.)
          1 Installation Diskette
          1 Network Installation Option Diskette

     Information: You will need to have the following information to 
complete the network installation.

            Remote host name and Remote net address:
                Network address and name of the server that contains the 
AIX 1.3 image.

            Local host name and Local net address
                Network address and name of the machine you are installing.

            Netmask
                A bitmask that will subdivide your network into smaller 
subnets.
                If you do not know this value, see your system 
administrator.

            Network Device
                The supported types of networks are Token Ring and Ethernet.
                For Token Ring enter tk0 (default), For Ungerman Bass 
Ethernet enter net0.

            Route Thru and Route Machine Address
                Use  this  if  you  need  to use a gateway to get to 
your server machine.
                Network address and name of the machine you are routing 
through.

            Remote filesystem
                Mountable file system of the server.

            Image path and name
                AIX 1.3 base image name.

            The following are the questions that you will be asked 
during the network installation. The parenthesized items are the 
defaults and will be selected if you just press enter at an item without 
entering any information.

               Remote host name (servergate)
               Remote net address (129.35.25.15)
               Local host name (Your_machine_name)
               Local net address (Your_machine_network_addr)
               Netmask (0xfffff000)
               Network Device (tk0)
               Route thru (NONE)
               Route machine address()
               Remote filesystem (/images/130)
               Image path and name (images/opsys)

Procedures:
                Normal AIX 1.3 installation is done in two phases.

                Phase I:
                     Install as normal, using the installation diskette.

                Phase II:
                     1) Choose "Boot from Diskette"
                     2) Set the "Run system from hard disk" option to yes.
                     3) Choose "Network Install"

                You will be prompted to insert the Network Installation 
Option diskette.
                Insert it and press enter.

                Answer the questions using the information you gathered 
earlier.

Note: When installing an ISA bus machine over token ring, make sure the 
adapter attached to the net you wish to use has the factory default 
settings for a primary token ring  adapter.  Once  this is done, 
netinstall will proceed exactly as on a Microchannel machine.

CREATING INSTALL IMAGES FOR NETWORK INSTALLATION
     Procedure for setting up a server for the purpose of using the 
"Network Install" option, when installing AIX.

     1) Find out exactly how much space you will need on the install 
server. The amount of space needed depends upon what you are planning to 
install. Information about how much space is needed can be found on page 
2-7 and 2-8 of the "Installing and Customizing the Operating System" 
manual. (The operating system takes roughly 22 megabytes.)

     2) Run the 'minidisks' command and create a partition at least 
twice the size of the image to be made.  Therefore, you should have a 
partition of approximately 44 megabytes to create an image for the 
operating system.  Name the partition /images and create it to be 
automatically mounted and read/write.

     3) Change directories to /images as follows:

            cd /images

     4) Restore the operating system into the directory that is mounted 
on the minidisk with the command:

          restore -xvf /dev/fd0

     5) AIX will prompt you to mount volume 1 on /dev/fd0 and will 
continue asking for the diskettes until you have restored the entire 
operating system.  (There are 15 operating system diskettes.)

     6) When completed with the restore, create a backup file of the 
contents of the directory that was just created:

          find . -print | backup -ivf /images/opsys

     7) The file /images/opsys will become your network install image 
for the operating system.  You can follow the same pattern as above to 
create network install images for the other Licensed Program Products, 
replacing the space requirements, disks to be used, and the name of the 
network install image appropriately.

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#71429

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

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#71430 — floppy/CD install for 1.3

Uli Link
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Apr 7, 2005, 2:44:49 AM
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Louis Ohland schrieb:
 > OK, has anyone managed to create a floppy/CD install for 1.3?


I would still say: it's possible.

But you'll have to build first a new set of boot diskettes with a
generic kernel including the CD-ROM driver.
Second you have to change the scripts of the installation shell, with
the network setup as a template.

The boot diskettes will be limited to a *fixed* SCSI ID of the CD-ROM on
the primary IBM SCSI controller, or you'll have to build a new boot
diskette set :-(

So why hassle around? Network setup is easy. All you need is another box
sharing a directory via NFS.

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#71431 — Re: floppy/CD install for 1.3

Gereon Wenzel
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Apr 7, 2005, 11:33:52 AM
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Uli Link <VonRechts...@usenet.arcornews.de> wrote in message 
news:<4254e4f5$0$11469$9b4e...@newsread2.arcor-online.net>...

 > Louis Ohland schrieb:
 >
 > > OK, has anyone managed to create a floppy/CD install for 1.3?
 >
 >
 > I would still say: it's possible.
 >
 > But you'll have to build first a new set of boot diskettes with a
 > generic kernel including the CD-ROM driver.
 > Second you have to change the scripts of the installation shell, with
 > the network setup as a template.
 >
 > The boot diskettes will be limited to a *fixed* SCSI ID of the CD-ROM on
 > the primary IBM SCSI controller, or you'll have to build a new boot
 > diskette set :-(
 >
Wasn't there a Floppy tape install available for 1.3?
I dimly remember to have seen some IBM part numbers about that.
Swapping /dev/stape for /dev/scd in the install script should be possible?
I know its not that easy, but at least its a way to try.
Gereon Wenzel

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