Hi,

I got an old 40p that I would like to use to get in touch
with a more recent AIX. It now has 48MB and a bigger
harddisk. When I try to boot from the first 5.1 CD,
it begins to boot, but then just hangs displaying
"PowerPC" and nothing else on the screen.
I can however boot AIX 4.3.3 on this machine.
What could be the problem with 5.1? Does it need
more than 48MB RAM to boot? I don't want to use it
graphically. In the end it will probably sit in a
dark corner and I will only access it via ssh.

mfg
Dennis

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Don't suffer from insanity...
Enjoy every minute of it.

AIX 5.1 requires a minimum of 64MB RAM.

The machine on which you are installing must have enough memory:
a.. POWER-based systems must have a minimum of 64 MB of memory.
Taken from :
http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_l...xinsgdtfrm.htm

James T. Sprinkle
"Dennis Grevenstein" <dennis@pcde.inka.de> wrote in message
news:cinkb0$bug$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de...
> Hi,
>
> I got an old 40p that I would like to use to get in touch
> with a more recent AIX. It now has 48MB and a bigger
> harddisk. When I try to boot from the first 5.1 CD,
> it begins to boot, but then just hangs displaying
> "PowerPC" and nothing else on the screen.
> I can however boot AIX 4.3.3 on this machine.
> What could be the problem with 5.1? Does it need
> more than 48MB RAM to boot? I don't want to use it
> graphically. In the end it will probably sit in a
> dark corner and I will only access it via ssh.
>
> mfg
> Dennis
>
> --
> Don't suffer from insanity...
> Enjoy every minute of it.

Dennis Grevenstein schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I got an old 40p that I would like to use to get in touch
> with a more recent AIX. It now has 48MB and a bigger
> harddisk. When I try to boot from the first 5.1 CD,
> it begins to boot, but then just hangs displaying
> "PowerPC" and nothing else on the screen.
> I can however boot AIX 4.3.3 on this machine.

AIX 5.1 needs 64MB as minimum. And even with 128 MB it is no fun.
On this machine I would stay at 4.3.3.

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Uli

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