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Hello, I created a diskless client OS using NIM on AIX 4.3. And I tried to use this on a machine that has a local disk. Everything works fine, except that when I try to do mkfs with the compressed flag set as follows: /usr/sbin/mkfs -V jfs -s 65536 -o...

Hello, Is there an easy way to create a RAM disk (sometimes called memdisk) on Solaris? I would like to be able to create a RAM disk so that I can see for example, /dev/dsk/ramd0 and /dev/rdsk/ramd0 block and character mode devices.

I have a AIX 4.3 system on which I am trying to do mkfs on a logical volume I created as follows: /usr/sbin/mkfs -V jfs -s 65536 /dev/hd4 to which I am getting the error message: Filesystem Helper: Access denied or could not execute Can some expert tell me what I am missing? I have tried...

I have 2 AIX boxes one running AIX 4.3.3 and the other running AIX 5.1. One is a 610 and the other is a 6E1. On both of them when I do bootinfo -T I get rspc and when I do bootinfo -p I get chrp. The is very confusing. WHich is the option that gives the correct architecture, and why is...

Is there a tool that analyzes the boot record and the boot LV on a physical volume (PV) and tells me the OS (e.g. AIX 4.3 or AIX 5.1) that is on that physical volume?

I am trying to create a network bootable image. In the process I have pruned many directories. When I run the cfgmgr it gives me the follownig error for some of the cfg* methods 0514-038 Error loading kernel extension. And I don't see which particular file it is trying to load. Is there an...

I managed to use NIM to network boot a p Series machine as a diskless machine and in the NIM client machine display the machine shows up as "running" (client MState is running). However on the actual machine itself I don't see the login prompt! I looked at the inittab file and the...

I just installed emacs 21.1 on my AIX 5 and when I invoke emacs I get: emacs: Terminal type vt100 is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be...

I created my own bootable image using the bosboot command for booting over the network. I then put this image in the /tftpboot directory and also modified the /etc/bootptab file to add an entry for the network bootable machine to download my new image. 1) Why does it need an .info file after...