Hello everybody,
I just purchased an old RS/6000 C10 with 4.1 installed.
Because I am new to AIX I am just searching for some documentation. Can
anybody help me?

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:13:23 +0200, Gregor Schumacher wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I just purchased an old RS/6000 C10 with 4.1 installed. Because I am new
> to AIX I am just searching for some documentation. Can anybody help me?

IBM's web site has loads of AIX documentation, but it's mainly about
current versions. 4.1 went out of support 7 years ago. Some of the
documentation will be relevant but it will be hard to tell what is and
what is not.

What is your purpose in running this old machine? If it is education then
you would be better off running a more recent AIX. A C10 will, in theory
at least, run 5.1 (but not later, it's MCA and 5.2+ won't run on MCA). Can
you get hold of 5.1? How big is your hard disk?

Regards, Ian

On Apr 8, 1:13 pm, "Gregor Schumacher" <t...@test.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I just purchased an old RS/6000 C10 with 4.1 installed.
> Because I am new to AIX I am just searching for some documentation. Can
> anybody help me?

The AIX FAQ would probably be a good starting point since it's a bit
outdated at this point (much like 4.1 ;-)
Good luck and have fun. Many of the core concepts between AIX 4.x &
AIX 5.x will be very similar (LVM, ODM, etc) so I don't think learning
on AIX 4.1 will necessarily be a bad thing. Good luck and have fun.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/

Gregor Schumacher schrieb:
> Hello everybody,
> I just purchased an old RS/6000 C10 with 4.1 installed.
> Because I am new to AIX I am just searching for some documentation. Can
> anybody help me?
>

as others have pointed out: on the surface there aren't that many
differences between AIX 4.x / 5.1, so you might get away with the 4.3
docs, still available at
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...base/aix43.htm
(but hurry, IBM has a bad habit to reshuffle their web pages every few
weeks :-(
I just consulted my remaining 4.1.5 base OS CDs,
they contain some bos.info.* filesets,
apparently containing some InfoExplorer-based documentations.
It has escaped my memory how complete / useful these are, though.

Hello evrybody thanks for the Infos. I will have a look on it.
regards
Gregor

"Michael Kraemer" <M.Kraemer@gsi.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Gregor Schumacher schrieb:
>> Hello everybody,
>> I just purchased an old RS/6000 C10 with 4.1 installed.
>> Because I am new to AIX I am just searching for some documentation. Can
>> anybody help me?
>>
>
> as others have pointed out: on the surface there aren't that many
> differences between AIX 4.x / 5.1, so you might get away with the 4.3
> docs, still available at
> http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...base/aix43.htm
> (but hurry, IBM has a bad habit to reshuffle their web pages every few
> weeks :-(
> I just consulted my remaining 4.1.5 base OS CDs,
> they contain some bos.info.* filesets,
> apparently containing some InfoExplorer-based documentations.
> It has escaped my memory how complete / useful these are, though.
>