[rescue] AIX Newbie

[Julius Sridhar]

http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~kraemerf/rsinfo/

Peace...  Sridhar

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 22:23:16 -0600
> From: Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> To: Rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [rescue] AIX Newbie
>
> Well, I finally got my first RS/6000 (a headless 7011/250 pizza box from a
> list-member).  And, thanks to another list-member, I have AIX.  I'm
> happy.  I'm also very clueless.
>
> 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.
>
> I wish I were at least getting line noise.  It appears to POST fine,
> though.  It seeks the floppy drive several times late into the POST, so it
> looks like it wants to boot.  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."
>
> 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. :)
>
> 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?
>
> --Jonathan
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