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You need a real 386/486 to run AIX. An SX won't cut it.

You can run supposedly AIX 1.x on ISA PCs, but they have to be 100% IBM compatible, and AIX doesn't support any non-MCA network cards.

Rats, I don't have any other PS/2 systems that are better than SX.

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Give it a go, it may be enough to do what you want to do. For example I have SunOS 4.1.1U box running diskless on a 68020 with 4MB of RAM. But it works for what I want, compilations take a long time but do work.

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I'm off to do work and don't expect to be back until ten tonight but I'll attempt an install tomorrow.
I have a little snip on how to use DD to extract those images so it looks like the floppy drive in the indigo will be getting some work.

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Okay, I am able to start the install fine and everything goes fine until I have to insert disk eight in the base system floppies.
I tried several different disks and each time it rejects it.

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I got my copy from here

http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/ohlandl/AIX_1-3/AIX_Index.html

and no problems with all the disks being loaded on a Model 76i (okay booting from IDE was another issue...).

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4xRS6K 2xHP9K 6xSUN 1xDEC 14xMAC 7xPC 2xPS2

Dang it.

I've had to down from a 2gig, to a 1gig and now down to a 500Meg disk in order for AIX to boot from the hard disk.

My MCA Etherlink III is not supported by AIX 1.3 with 0024, so am relegated to SLIP.

Do you know any modern distributions that still include SLIP by default, not many I can tell you!

However, C compiler happily works so I have my favourite editor up and going....

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4xRS6K 2xHP9K 6xSUN 1xDEC 14xMAC 7xPC 2xPS2

I had to pack the system away for another rainy day.
I'll have to download that alternative disk image from there another time.

odd, you should of been fine with a 1 gig drive.

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< 1023Meg - yes

1.3Gig - no.

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4xRS6K 2xHP9K 6xSUN 1xDEC 14xMAC 7xPC 2xPS2

Bummer. Are you positive that your next alternative is not a little smaller than that? (what disk interface are you using?)

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SCSI-2-FW, Corvette.

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4xRS6K 2xHP9K 6xSUN 1xDEC 14xMAC 7xPC 2xPS2

I have never tried that configuration. I'm living with a 160Mb ESDI drive.

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And you can't just write out a disklabel that abandons some blocks?

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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

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AIX just has a look at the disk and says "I know what size this really is".

Alas it's down the booting, BIOS limitations and all that good stuff, remember these are PS/2 PCs. You can have a bigger disk if you are prepared to boot from floppy each time.

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4xRS6K 2xHP9K 6xSUN 1xDEC 14xMAC 7xPC 2xPS2

This is a nonsense, you can of course run AIX PS/2 on 386sx sytem. I do in fact, it runs rather happily on my PS/2 Model 65sx, which is 386SX-based. There's no difference between 386SX and DX from the operating system's point of view.

AIX PS/2 with the latest patches should run on non-MCA PC hardware, but I don't think it's worth the energy one would have to invest in such thing. Even getting it to run on some IBM MCA hardware is almost impossible - right now I'm trying to run it on my 76i with no success so far