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  • Reading AIX 1.x floppies

    From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 16:39:29 2024
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    Folks, I'm diving into a pool of AIXes here.

    I wandt to look inside the AIX update floppies for any sordid of text
    that could help me understand.
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  • From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 19:33:53 2024
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    On 1/26/24 16:39, Louis Ohland wrote:
    I wandt to look inside the AIX update floppies for any sordid of text
    that could help me understand.

    I /think/ that AIX 1.x software distribution disks were more a raw CPIO
    (type) medium than a formatted file system.
    --
    Grant. . . .
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  • From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 19:34:30 2024
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    On 1/26/24 19:33, Grant Taylor wrote:
    I /think/ that AIX 1.x software distribution disks were more a raw CPIO (type) medium than a formatted file system.

    Find some documentation about how to access them from AIX and that will
    give you a good indication of what they are.
    --
    Grant. . . .
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  • From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 20:02:01 2024
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    https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/AIX_Install_Disk_Image_Format.html

    "Douglas Hall diddled about and came up with:
    After a bit of experimenting witht the various formats (dd, tar,
    cpio etc,) it finally turns out the format of the floppies is the aix
    backup format. "

    So what will read it in the Windows world?

    Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 1/26/24 19:33, Grant Taylor wrote:
    I /think/ that AIX 1.x software distribution disks were more a raw
    CPIO (type) medium than a formatted file system.

    Find some documentation about how to access them from AIX and that will
    give you a good indication of what they are.



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  • From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 20:33:41 2024
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    On 1/26/24 20:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    So what will read it in the Windows world?

    AIX 1.3 running in VM connected to the (virtual) floppy drive.
    --
    Grant. . . .
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  • From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jan 26 21:22:15 2024
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    You got that, Lorenzo?

    Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 1/26/24 20:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    So what will read it in the Windows world?

    AIX 1.3 running in VM connected to the (virtual) floppy drive.



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