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Early Vid: Net Booting an RS/6000 from 1996 with NIM (Patreon)

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2025-10-06 17:18:27
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2025-10-06 17:18:57
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2026-06

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Installing AIX 5.1 over the network onto an RS/6000 43p via a Network Installation Management (NIM) server.Video probably goes live on the channel Wednesday!

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Net Booting an RS/6000 from 1996 with NIM

Net booting an RS/6000 43p model 140 with IBM NIM, or Network Installation Management. This will let us install AIX 5.1 over the network onto a Seagate SCSI drive in the RS/6000. Check me out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/clabretro Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio #netro #retrotech #retrocomputer #networking #sun Serial to USB converter: https://amzn.to/4mAXDlJ Rack stuff StarTech Universal Rack Rails: https://amzn.to/404JV1Q StarTech 42U Rack: https://amzn.to/482c3oh StarTech 25U Rack: https://amzn.to/3mEB7hS Tripp Lite SMART1500LCD UPS: https://amzn.to/3KZW3Jw 1U 24 Port Patch Panel: https://amzn.to/3Nm0bFa 1U Brush Panel: https://amzn.to/3mExAA3 1U Rack Shelf: https://amzn.to/3oaDclT Video gear Camera: https://amzn.to/4al3xjA Main mics: https://amzn.to/4dCUuO2 Desk mic: https://amzn.to/3ye8BsV Note: The above are Amazon affiliate links. It doesn't cost you extra, but I'll receive a commission which will help keep the content coming. I only link to things I've personally ordered. 00:00 Intro 00:38 RS/6000 43p Overview 01:45 Installing a SCSI Drive 06:49 Repairing the CPU Fan 11:31 The NIM Server 15:29 NIM lpp_source and SPOT 23:39 Better VGA Capture Setup 25:31 NIM Machines 29:25 Base Operating System Install 40:00 Booting from the Hard Disk 42:48 NIM mksysb and bosinst_data 44:08 Fire Alarm

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Jonathan Cilley

Love seeing these old system P servers up and running. They are built like tanks and are awesome machines.

Jack Beckman

Not sure if this is true of this gear, but older IBM SCSI gear wants the bootable drives to have HIGH numbers, like 6 (as the adapter is usually 7) instead of 0. Probably not important with a single drive but if you set multiple drives on a BlueSCSI it might matter - if you can get the BlueSCSI to work with your IBM adapter. I have not been able to do it in my PS/2s. They work fine with an Adaptec adapter, but not with the IBM. Why did IBM want you to go down from 6 instead of up like most everyone else? Because if you look at that standard, that how it's SUPPOSED to work. Everyone else does it backwards from the original standard.

Gra1n

My PC Server 500 uses ID 6 for the service partition or whatever IBM called the partition with ADFs, But it does boot from other IDs

clabretro

very useful info, I'll keep that in mind when I true the blue scsi

Jack Beckman

@grain bread - I can boot from other IDs as well, as long as I set them up in the System Partition. But the default seems to be 6. @clabretro I also tried a ZuluSCI Wide on the wide bus of my PS/2 95 but it worked even worse than the BlueSCSI. BlueSCSI would read and write but eventually time out. ZuluSCSI would not write at all. Both logs show a large number of bus resets. But this is only on the IBM SCSI adapter. On the Adaptec that is also in the system, it works 100%, no issues, but of course the PS/@ wants to boot from the IBM controller. That may not be an issue in the RS/6000, depending upon the controller.