AIX 4.1.3 on 7009-C20 RS/6000

[Rico Pajarola]

As far as I remember trying to install the client version of AIX on a
server type machine will bomb early in the installation, but it will give
you some confirmation that it did indeed boot from the CD. Maybe your CD is
indeed bad.

Any specific reason why you want to run 4.1.3 and not 4.1.5, 4.2.1 or
4.3.3? (is there any hardware that only works with 4.1.3?).


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Any RS/6000 hobbyists out there?
>
>
> I got my old 7009-C20 pretty tricked out and hardware carefully selected
> to be compatible with AIX 4.1.3, the version I'm trying to get running on
> it. Unfortunately, I can't get the dang thing to boot my 4.1.3 or 4.1.4
> CD's.  It'll boot my 4.1.5 disc, however.  The 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 CD's are
> labeled "AIX for clients" or something like that, and I seem to recall
> having trouble getting other RS/6000's to boot from this 4.1.3 CD, even
> though it's genuine original media, and reads just fine in a working system.
>
>
> Anyone know a way to check what systems an old AIX 4.1 disc supports, or
> have  C20 or similar MCA machine running 4.1.3?
>
>
> My other thought was to try to NIM boot it using my ThinkPad 860 as a NIM
> server (running 4.1.5), but it unfortunately doesn't have enough capacity
> to hold a lpp_source and a SPOT, and even then it looks like the 4.1.3 disc
> may not have enough stuff on it to support the C20 anyway...
>
>
> Anyway, thanks in advance!
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