3002 uses a *LOT* of memory

David Erb djerb at innerdoor.austin.ibm.com
Tue Apr 30 08:31:31 AEST 1991


> When this happened I tried reinstalling AIX from tape. It installs the
> base bit fine but when I tried to install the rest from smit startup
> it happily listed what was on there and let me choose it but when I
> tried to load it it complained it was not in backup format.

I also came across this problem when I was trying to install from tape.
It turns out that you need to specify "/dev/rmt0.5" when restoring the 
second half of the tape instead of just "/dev/rmt0".  Otherwise, it was
attempting to restore the first half of the tape.

Dave Erb
AIXwindows Development
IBM Austin



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