Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sunic!tut!hydra!lehtonen From: lehtonen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Tapio Lehtonen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: installing several AIX PS/2's Message-ID: <6148@hydra.Helsinki.FI> Date: 4 Jul 90 11:05:50 GMT References: <1990Jun25.154509.6726@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1316@msa3b.UUCP> Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science Lines: 28 In article <1316@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes: >peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Wu) writes: > >>I was wondering if there anyone out there who has the same problem. >>We have to install AIX 1.2 on ~30 PS/2's and I was wondering if there >>is any easy/efficient/time-saving way besides spending up to three >>hours on one machine swapping disks? >1. Install one machine (all disks, all updates, all products). >2. Boot from the maintennance disk, and take a "minidisk" > backup of /, and root minidisks (each to a separate tape). Exacly how is this standalone backup done from the boot/maintenance disks? I try to choose standalone backup from the menu, but after asking umpteen questions it responds with CAN'T OPEN /DEV/RMT0. I think I have the correct values for tape length and density, at least the local IBM AIX expert wrote them down for my distributor to give to me. I am right now running AIX PS/2 1.2, this standalone backup to tape did work on 1.1. And it works to disk even now, just this tape can't be opened. -- Tapio Lehtonen PHONE + 358 0 7084206 Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ. of Helsinki TELEX 122785 TSK SF FAX 708 4441 Teollisuuskatu 23, SF-00510 Helsinki INTERNET lehtonen@cs.Helsinki.FI Finland LEHTONEN@FINUH HYLK::TLEHTONEN