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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: installing several AIX PS/2's
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.152728.14852@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:27:28 GMT
References: <1990Jun25.154509.6726@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jun26.153954.20096@turnkey.tcc.com> <4699@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
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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.
 
I don't know, I don't consider 3 diskettes each inserted twice (as pointed
out by Steve from UCLA in another posting) to be a very big deal. I would
tend to agree that its really too bad that no cartridge tape distribution
is available, especially since we had such media in use during the develop-
ment phase here at LCC. This was probably a production issue within IBM.
In IBM's defense, however, I would point out that none of the 386 Unix
vendors offer cartridge-based distribution that I am aware of. I am facing
nearly as many disks as you in the ISC 2.2 upgrade for turnkey that I
just received. Oh well :-{.

Disclaimer: As always, MHO, not LCC's or IBM's.


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