How do you create BOS Boot and Install/Maint diskettes?
Robin D. Wilson
robin at batcomp.austin.ibm.com
Thu Dec 20 01:46:42 AEST 1990
In article <121490.152032.heise1 at ibm.com> RAH at IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise") writes:
) 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
If you use the "-m" flag with the bosboot command, the "dd" is not necessary.
) 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
Just typing: "/usr/lpp/bosinst/display/mkdispdskt" will also write to the
diskette (avoiding the dd again).
) 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
Avoid the "dd" with: "/usr/lpp/bosinst/diskette/mkinstdskt".
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