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Looking for an AIX LiveCD

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Sako

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May 21, 2004, 7:01:38 PM5/21/04
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I'm looking for a standalone bootable AIX LiveCD, maybe something
similiar to Knoppix for Linux. The idea is in the case of big problems
at a remote site, would like to have the customer stick in a bootable
CD, boot to it, bring it on network where we can then mess with it long
distance.

Anybody know of any such animals?

TIA

r00t

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May 24, 2004, 12:53:45 PM5/24/04
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Sorry mate - you're outta luck. It doesn't exist.

Holger van Koll

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May 24, 2004, 1:44:47 PM5/24/04
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Sako wrote:

any aix (installation) cd will do

Bill

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May 24, 2004, 2:40:57 PM5/24/04
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Sako <ride...@NOSPAMdls.net> wrote in message news:<f7CdnaR-Qqb...@dls.net>...

To make a 'generic' CD would not work. Device drivers and system
config/ODM issues would handcuff you.

If the box has a CD-burner or a DVD burner, you could make a mksysb of
the box that way, but it would be machine specific and any updates
would require generation of a new CD/DVD image.

BV

r00t

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May 24, 2004, 4:07:47 PM5/24/04
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Best bet: try ebay.

Sako

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May 25, 2004, 5:59:18 PM5/25/04
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That's the problem. We're stuck supporting a lot of remote servers with
NO tapedrive or CD/DVD burner on a 56k line, so it's not feasable to
xmit mksysb images over the net. Was hoping to find something akin to
Linux's various LiveCD options, where we have the customer stick the CD
in the intel win box, reboot and we take it from there. Was just a
hopeful thought...

Sako

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May 25, 2004, 6:04:15 PM5/25/04
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Not sure I follow...there's such a product to be had on ebay? Did a
search but my keywords gave no hits. Could you s'plain?

r00t

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May 27, 2004, 11:15:19 AM5/27/04
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Search for the appropriate keyworks on ebay - if it is be had, it is
probably there. Otherwise you're ooutta luck unless you go pirate or buy
legit from IBM/reseller. Comprende?
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