1. Load the mksysb tape in the tapedrive.
2. Boot with AIX 5.3 CD Rom
3. On the install/recover screen, choose to recover from backup media.
4. It will list the tape device as one of the possible options for
recovery, select it.
5. Recovery will start.

PS: You must boot from CD, as you are installing on a diffrent machine
than the one you made the mksysb from. Any additional drivers needed
for the "new" machine are loaded from the CD ROM you booted from.

Home this helps.

Vinit Adya


michael.shulman wrote:
> How would I go about moving a mksysb image from one AIX machine to the
> other for the purposes of using the second machines tape drive to write
> the image?
>
> Background: I have two AIX machines: a P570 and a 520. The 570 has no
> built in tape drive and I have a removeable 4/8GB DDS2 SCSI drive I use
> in emergencies. I am trying to make an image of an LPAR with a very
> large rootvg on the 570 and it is not practical to use close to 10 8G
> tapes. The 520 has a DDS4 70G tape drive in it which is also what the
> system I am cloning the LPAR from the 570 to be built in.
> The 520 is running AIX 5.3, while the 570 LPAR is running 5.2. (I don't
> know if this will make a difference).
>
> Any help would be appreciated in this.