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  • AIX PS/2 and NFS Goodness

    From Anthony@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 11 11:41:16 2021
    After some trial-and-error, I have a a fully patched AIX PS/2 1.3 install on my Model 80.

    A "pro-tip" I have for anyone going down this path in the modern world is to do the BOS install along with the TCP/IP, and NFS LPPs. Set up an NFS share on $modern_box_of_choice being sure that NFSv2 support is enabled. Grab all of the LPP images (a
    recursive wget will do) and stick them in said share. You can literally point installp and updatep to the files on the share and it Just Works (TM)!

    For LPPs and patches that span multiple disks, what I do is copy disk 1 to a generic file name (something a simple as X), then point installp/updatep to the path of this file. When it asks for the next disk, I simply overwrite the file with the disk it'
    s asking for. It is absolutely beautiful.

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  • From Anthony@21:1/5 to Anthony on Sat Dec 11 11:42:45 2021
    On Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 11:41:17 AM UTC-8, Anthony wrote:
    After some trial-and-error, I have a a fully patched AIX PS/2 1.3 install on my Model 80.

    A "pro-tip" I have for anyone going down this path in the modern world is to do the BOS install along with the TCP/IP, and NFS LPPs. Set up an NFS share on $modern_box_of_choice being sure that NFSv2 support is enabled. Grab all of the LPP images (a
    recursive wget will do) and stick them in said share. You can literally point installp and updatep to the files on the share and it Just Works (TM)!

    For LPPs and patches that span multiple disks, what I do is copy disk 1 to a generic file name (something a simple as X), then point installp/updatep to the path of this file. When it asks for the next disk, I simply overwrite the file with the disk it'
    s asking for. It is absolutely beautiful.

    installp -d /nfs/path/to/lpp/disk.image

    updatep -ac -d /nfs/path/to/patch/disk.image

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Anthony on Sun Dec 12 07:02:32 2021
    Sounds like the long pole in the tent. I know from bitter experience
    that more modern versions of Wind-Blowze are very picky about security.

    On 12/11/2021 13:42, Anthony wrote:
    NFSv2 support is enabled

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Dec 12 07:18:14 2021
    https://www.dell.com/community/VNX/NFS-mount-on-windows-7/td-p/6965279

    On 12/12/2021 07:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Sounds like the long pole in the tent. I know from bitter experience
    that more modern versions of Wind-Blowze are very picky about security.

    On 12/11/2021 13:42, Anthony wrote:
    NFSv2 support is enabled


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Dec 12 07:28:58 2021
    https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mount-nfs-from-windows-7.45882/post-256676

    As far as I know there's only an NFS client with Windows 7 Enterprise.
    It's not available in Windows 7 Professional or Home.

    On 12/12/2021 07:18, Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.dell.com/community/VNX/NFS-mount-on-windows-7/td-p/6965279

    On 12/12/2021 07:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Sounds like the long pole in the tent. I know from bitter experience
    that more modern versions of Wind-Blowze are very picky about security.

    On 12/11/2021 13:42, Anthony wrote:
    NFSv2 support is enabled



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Anthony on Sun Dec 12 07:40:49 2021
    Can it work with SAMBA? I am [l]using Win7 Home Premium [har, har, har]
    and it appears NFS client isn't there. Maybe.

    On 12/11/2021 13:41, Anthony wrote:
    After some trial-and-error, I have a a fully patched AIX PS/2 1.3 install on my Model 80.

    A "pro-tip" I have for anyone going down this path in the modern world is to do the BOS install along with the TCP/IP, and NFS LPPs. Set up an NFS share on $modern_box_of_choice being sure that NFSv2 support is enabled. Grab all of the LPP images (a
    recursive wget will do) and stick them in said share. You can literally point installp and updatep to the files on the share and it Just Works (TM)!

    For LPPs and patches that span multiple disks, what I do is copy disk 1 to a generic file name (something a simple as X), then point installp/updatep to the path of this file. When it asks for the next disk, I simply overwrite the file with the disk
    it's asking for. It is absolutely beautiful.


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  • From Anthony@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Dec 12 10:03:13 2021
    On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 5:42:29 AM UTC-8, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Can it work with SAMBA? I am [l]using Win7 Home Premium [har, har, har]
    and it appears NFS client isn't there. Maybe.

    I am unsure on how successful (or not) this would be with Windows. However, in order to do this via CIFS/SAMBA, a CIFS/SAMBA client would need to be available for AIX PS/2 and I don't think there is anything native. Since I primarily live in the *NIX
    world, I just set up a quick and dirty NFS share on my primary desktop workstation which runs the testing branch of Debian.

    Also, for those who go down this rabbit hole, I also highly recommend imaging the hard drive at a couple of points. I imaged the hard drive once I did the BOS plus TCP/IP and NFS and called this the "base" image. This way if an LPP or update went
    screwy I could just write the image back to the hard drive rather than muddle through the ~21 diskettes over. Also, once I installed all the desired LPPs and fully patched the system I imaged the drive again (which I am calling the "final" image).

    In my case, by "image", I'm simply doing a "dd" of the drive. The drive in my 8580-321 is a 400MB IBM 0661, and compressing the "final" image at the highest level using XZ results in a rather slim 20MB image.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Dec 12 11:46:51 2021
    On 12/12/21 6:40 AM, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Can it work with SAMBA?
    No more than a left handed metric threaded bolt will work in a right
    handed English nut.

    Samba, or SMB, and NFS are /completely/ /different/ /protocols/.

    I am [l]using Win7 Home Premium ... and it appears NFS client isn't
    there. Maybe.

    I've never seen the NFS client, nor NFS server, included in Windows /by/ /default/. I've always had to /explicitly/ go and add it. Circa 2000 /
    2003 you could add it as an optional protocol / client / service in the
    network properties. After that you needed to install something else, I
    think Services for Unix, to be able to add NFS client / server support
    to Windows. I've not tried in a LONG time.



    --
    Grant. . . .
    unix || die

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