[rescue] AIX Newbie

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:23:16PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> There seems to be no 7011 documentation on ibm.com, which sucks, and I 
> can't seem to get a serial connection between my PC and it--I'm assuming 
> 9600,8,N,1 with a null-modem cable.  I've tried a cross-over cable (just 
> the data leads) as well.  I'm assuming that S1 is the console port.  I've 
> tried software, hardware, and no flow control.

The manual is on there, somewhere.  I found the 7012 manual after about
half an hour of digging + google.

> After a while it gives up and spits "262" on 
> the diagnostic readout, which I can only assume means "I can't boot without 
> a bootable medium, dummy."

http://www.pimpworks.org/ibm/aixled.html:

262 Keyboard not detected as being connected to the system's keyboard port.

> Anyway, my big question is:  "Could somebody recommend a web site for 
> newbies to the RS/6000 family?"  Also, if anyone has PDFs of the docs for 
> the 7011/250, I'd be impossibly happy to get a URL. :)

http://www.rootvg.net  (wow, I just found out about this site.. nifty)

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/hardware_docs/

> I'm already impressed by how small and quiet this machine is (although it 
> probably won't be as quiet when I hand it a fixed disc).  How impressed 
> will I be with its performance as a "I wanna learn AIX because all the 
> gov't sysadmin jobs around here require AIX knowledge, and you can never 
> know too many Unixen anyway" system?

Its about SPARCstation 2 class, AFAIK.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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