How do you create BOS Boot and Install/Maint diskettes?
Russell A. Heise
RAH at IBM.COM
Sat Dec 15 08:23:58 AEST 1990
lusgr at vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Steve Roseman) writes:
> An AIX 3 'Install over a Network' requires a BOS Boot diskette and a BOS
> Install/Maint diskette. Neither is supplied with the system, nor is a
> procedure for creating them in the documentation (that I could find.)
>
> According to my local SE, (currently out sick), the procedure is somewhere.
> Does anyone have it?
You can use the following instructions to create the *three* diskettes
needed. You will need to do this on a working system.
1. Log in as root.
2. Run the following commands to create a BOSBOOT diskette
(A formatted diskette must be in the drive to run these
commands):
# bosboot -c -m -p /usr/bin/dskt.proto -d /dev/fd0 \
-f /usr/bin/dskt.fs -b /usr/bin/dskt.image
# dd if=/usr/bin/dskt.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
3. Run the following commands to create a CONSOLE diskette
(A formatted diskette must be in the drive):
# /usr/lpp/bosinst/display/mkdispdskt /usr/bin/bosdis.image
# dd if=/usr/bin/bosdis.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
4. Run the following commands to create a INSTALLATION/
MAINTENANCE diskette
# /usr/lpp/bosinst/diskette/mkinstdskt /usr/bin/bosinst.image
# dd if=/usr/bin/bosinst.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM
More information about the Comp.unix.aix
mailing list