Removing AIX 2.2.1 from an RT.. help!
Harold Bobroff
harold at hardy.u.washington.edu
Wed Dec 5 14:50:40 AEST 1990
Hi all..
I'm trying to convert an RT running AIX 2.2.1 to 4.3 BSD(AOS), and having
not much luck. I have a donor who's willing let me copy BSD onto my machine
via the network, but first I need to prepare the RT for the transfer using the
AOS "sautil" and "miniroot" floppies. But my machine refuses to boot from
either of them. When i try it, the floppy spins for a moment after all the
self-tests are complete, then just quits. Now, I've been informed that some
magic procedure is required to remove the AIX minidisk formatting from the
hard drive, but nobody seems to know exactly how it's done. I've gone through
every menu on the AIX installation/maintenance floppy, but haven't found the
trick there. I naively tried simply deleting all the existing minidisks with
the maint. floppy, but it doesn't allow deletion of the page-space and "/"
minidisks because they're still "in use". I've also been poring over the AIX
manuals for many hours, but haven't found anything helpful there, either.
Does anyone out there know what incantation is needed to do this? or is the
problem something else entirely? Any clues at all would be much appreciated.
I doubt this is of general interest, so e-mail replies would probably be best.
Many thanks in advance...
Harold
<harold at cac.washington.edu>
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