4 Sep
2000
4 Sep
'00
9:10 p.m.
Hi
I know very little about Rs6000's and IBM AIX...
Got this for free...80M Ram, 2 SCSI drives, no keyboard or monitor.
Sabine video card and token ring card. Connected Wyse 60 to Modu-10
serial port connector (made cable and connector - such fun) and worked
when I got it with AIX already on HDs. Did not have root and HD was a
mess so took drives out and used them for something else.
Was told AIX needed for this machine was specific version and had to be
installed from IBM tape drive ou IBM CDROM or it would never
install...tried a "AIX 4.2.1 entry server" on cdrom with Toshiba and
other non-ibm SCSI cdroms and never booted or installed doing proper
install procedure. Cdrom could be seen and read when old AIX was on
there and cdrom connected to scsi chain...I know Sabine card not
supported in 4.x Aix anyways...
It's micro-channel arch. I think there is no Linux for this...
Now machine sits in corner with vintage pc collection taking up more and
more space. It's either gotta do something usefull besides sitting on
it's side...or will be put up for trade/sale...I really don't wanna
bother selling this...I am trying to limit collection of vintage PCs to
"home pc's" so this one won't stay for collection even if now about
10-11 years old...
Anybody any ideas or suggestions??? Is it worth it?
Thanks for reading
Claude
5 Sep
5 Sep
9:41 p.m.
Check the IBM web site. I think there's something there about getting
the root password on a machine you have console access to (which is
why no AIX machine should be left physically unattended :-).
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9:49 p.m.
Check the IBM web site. I think there's something
there about getting
the root password on a machine you have console access to (which is
why no AIX machine should be left physically unattended :-).
Well... Considering that on just about any system that you've got physical
access to you can get around the root/system/whatever password... :^) On
some systems even with access it's difficult, on others it's very easy!
Zane
6 Sep
6 Sep
9:06 a.m.
Check the IBM
web site. I think there's something there about getting
the root password on a machine you have console access to (which is
why no AIX machine should be left physically unattended :-).
Well... Considering that on just about any system that you've got physical
access to you can get around the root/system/whatever password... :^) On
some systems even with access it's difficult, on others it's very easy! 
5 Sep
5 Sep
10:13 p.m.
Hi Claude,
You are correct. You must use an IBM CDROM or Tape to install the OS. Once
the OS is installed just about any CDROM will work. You should be able to
use any version of AIX on that box, although, as you guessed, some items
might not be supported. And no, no Linux for this box.
Mike N.
Claude wrote:
Hi
I know very little about Rs6000's and IBM AIX...
Got this for free...80M Ram, 2 SCSI drives, no keyboard or monitor.
Sabine video card and token ring card. Connected Wyse 60 to Modu-10
serial port connector (made cable and connector - such fun) and worked
when I got it with AIX already on HDs. Did not have root and HD was a
mess so took drives out and used them for something else.
Was told AIX needed for this machine was specific version and had to be
installed from IBM tape drive ou IBM CDROM or it would never
install...tried a "AIX 4.2.1 entry server" on cdrom with Toshiba and
other non-ibm SCSI cdroms and never booted or installed doing proper
install procedure. Cdrom could be seen and read when old AIX was on
there and cdrom connected to scsi chain...I know Sabine card not
supported in 4.x Aix anyways...
It's micro-channel arch. I think there is no Linux for this...
Now machine sits in corner with vintage pc collection taking up more and
more space. It's either gotta do something usefull besides sitting on
it's side...or will be put up for trade/sale...I really don't wanna
bother selling this...I am trying to limit collection of vintage PCs to
"home pc's" so this one won't stay for collection even if now about
10-11 years old...
Anybody any ideas or suggestions??? Is it worth it?
Thanks for reading
Claude
6 Sep
6 Sep
4:39 a.m.
Hello Claude
On 04-Sep-00, you wrote:
Regards
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Gary Hildebrand
Box 6184
St. Joseph, MO 64506-0184
816-662-2612
or
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
Hi
I know very little about Rs6000's and IBM AIX...
Got this for free...80M Ram, 2 SCSI drives, no keyboard or monitor.
Sabine video card and token ring card. Connected Wyse 60 to Modu-10
serial port connector (made cable and connector - such fun) and worked
when I got it with AIX already on HDs. Did not have root and HD was a
mess so took drives out and used them for something else.
Was told AIX needed for this machine was specific version and had to be
installed from IBM tape drive ou IBM CDROM or it would never
install...tried a "AIX 4.2.1 entry server" on cdrom with Toshiba and
other non-ibm SCSI cdroms and never booted or installed doing proper
install procedure. Cdrom could be seen and read when old AIX was on
there and cdrom connected to scsi chain...I know Sabine card not
supported in 4.x Aix anyways...
It's micro-channel arch. I think there is no Linux for this...
Now machine sits in corner with vintage pc collection taking up more and
more space. It's either gotta do something usefull besides sitting on
it's side...or will be put up for trade/sale...I really don't wanna
bother selling this...I am trying to limit collection of vintage PCs to
"home pc's" so this one won't stay for collection even if now about
10-11 years old...
Anybody any ideas or suggestions??? Is it worth it?
Thanks for reading
Claude
Might be . . . I think that is a Power PC chip and there is a Linux for PPC,
but sold under the Macintosh banner. I have a PPC distro, but it is geared
for the PPC card in an Amiga.
It's the MCA that stops me -- very expensive expandibility.
8:11 a.m.
> I know very little about Rs6000's and IBM
AIX...
Which model 7012 was it 530/550/580/590?
It should work from Toshiba CD's since the IBM used Toshiba's.
The one issue is that they classed the different AIX boxes
differently and some of them needed different CD's -- based on
system size and type.
I'm wondering if the CD was set for 512 byte sectors or 2048 byte
sectors?
Also, what SCSI ID did you use for the CDROM?
(a bit rusty at AIX -- but I used to run some 7012/550's, 580's and a
590.
BTW -- I don't think you can install AIX 4.x from anything other than
CD...
Bill
Got this for free...80M Ram, 2 SCSI drives, no keyboard or monitor.
Sabine video card and token ring card. Connected Wyse 60 to Modu-10
serial port connector (made cable and connector - such fun) and worked
when I got it with AIX already on HDs. Did not have root and HD was a
mess so took drives out and used them for something else.
Thanks for reading
Claude
Might be . . . I think that is a Power PC chip and there is a Linux for PPC,
but sold under the Macintosh banner. I have a PPC distro, but it is geared
for the PPC card in an Amiga.
It's the MCA that stops me -- very expensive expandibility.
9:08 a.m.
Might be . . . I think that is a Power PC chip and
there is a Linux for PPC,
but sold under the Macintosh banner. I have a PPC distro, but it is geared
for the PPC card in an Amiga.
Not necessarily -- it could be the old POWER architecture. There is no Linux
for that, at least that I'm aware of.
I run AIX 4.1.4 on this Apple Network Server 500, which is itself a PPC 604e.
LinuxPPC is *kind of* supported on this platform -- I hear it still has some
X issues. Never mind, I love SMIT always. ;-)
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