Changing an AIX's name --- how to do it easily?
Steve Burling
srb at eh.ifs.umich.edu
Thu Jun 14 22:38:48 AEST 1990
Here's the technique used by one of the other guys on the project
to change ps/2 system name:
1. replace all occurrences of the old system name with the
new system name in the following files:
/etc/fsmap
/etc/fstab
/etc/hosts
/etc/ports
/etc/site
/etc/system.bk
/generic/install/siteinfo
2. build and install a kernel with the new name:
a. cd /usr/sys
newkernel
3. rename the (only) special device file in the following directory
from the old system name to the new system name:
/generic/dev
4. change /<LOCAL> to the new system name:
a. boot the os boot floppy
b. run the os maintenance disk
c. get a single user shell
d. mount /dev/hd35 /mnt
cd /mnt
mv <oldname> <newname>
cd /
umount /dev/hd35
e. exit the single user shell and boot from the hard disk
note: /dev/hd35 above is magic; you'll have to mount all of the
/dev entries on the floppy one by one to find the one which
represents /<LOCAL> on the hard disk.
No guarantees -- make sure you have a backup...
-- Steve
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