[aix thinkpad] help a new AIXer

[Federico Lucifredi]

 Actually,
     I found these sms files in ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/powerpc/
....
 there are different ones, which shouold I use ? and How do I use them ? Are
 these boot floppies ? .... I surely hope not as my unit came with CD-ROM
 only....

     -Federico

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Trevor Cordes" <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
 To: <aixtp at tecnopolis.ca>
 Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:41
 Subject: Re: [aix thinkpad] help a new AIXer


 > On 28 May, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
 > > Hello Gentlemen,
 > >     I am tryng to sep up a thinkpad 850 that has come my way. I have an
 AIX
 > > running on it (I believe it to be a 2.x variant), but the media I have
 are
 > > 4.2.1.
 >
 > You almost certainly already have 4.2.x loaded on it.  There is no "AIX
 > 2.x" that will run on the TP:PS.  The lowest is 4.1.3 I believe.
 >
 > Type  uname -a  at the command prompt and it will tell you the version
 > number.
 >
 > Upgrading the system would involve getting a SMS diskette from IBM (see
 > the links on my web site) and using it to boot from CD.  In most cases
 > (when done the recommended way) this will wipe everything on your hard
 > drive and start from scratch.  If you have the root password for the
 > machine, then I wouldn't bother reloading, unless someone's messed up
 > the OS before you (pretty hard to do with AIX)!
 >
 > Have fun.
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