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From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: installing several AIX PS/2's
Message-ID: <814@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 90 21:22:58 GMT
References: <1990Jun25.154509.6726@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jun26.153954.20096@turnkey.tcc.com> <4699@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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Reply-To: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen C. Woods)
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In article <4699@darkstar.ucsc.edu> bobeson@saturn.ucsc.edu (Robert Ellefson) writes:
>Even with AIX370 and TCF, a non-trivial number of disk swaps are
>required to install a dependant site.  My SE tells me that no tape
>distribution is available, which blows my mind as I stare at the
>80 floppy disks in the full installation suite for my primary site.

Well I suspose that you can call 6 a nontrivial number, (boot, boot2, initalize,
boot, boot2, install).  It's too bad that the kernel doesn't fit on a 1.44
meg disk (along with the rather large, but handy boot).

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