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  • Reading AIX 1.x floppies

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 26 16:39:29 2024
    Folks, I'm diving into a pool of AIXes here.

    I wandt to look inside the AIX update floppies for any sordid of text
    that could help me understand.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Jan 26 19:34:30 2024
    On 1/26/24 19:33, Grant Taylor wrote:
    I /think/ that AIX 1.x software distribution disks were more a raw CPIO (type) medium than a formatted file system.

    Find some documentation about how to access them from AIX and that will
    give you a good indication of what they are.



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Jan 26 19:33:53 2024
    On 1/26/24 16:39, Louis Ohland wrote:
    I wandt to look inside the AIX update floppies for any sordid of text
    that could help me understand.

    I /think/ that AIX 1.x software distribution disks were more a raw CPIO
    (type) medium than a formatted file system.



    --
    Grant. . . .

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