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Back in the day, we had AIX running on RS/6000 and it was never connected to any kind of network. Didn't even have networking hardware. It served serial termina
by electroly 3y ago
Back in the day, we had AIX running on RS/6000 and it was never connected to any kind of network. Didn't even have networking hardware. It served serial terminals. I'm certain that AIX did not, in general, require a network to boot, but rather your system was configured that way.
- em-bee 3y agoi must have been lucky, because my AIX box was working fine on ethernet. the most "fun" i had was once when it didn't boot, i had to mess with ed to fix some configuration (that i must have messed up myself before) to get it to run again. vi experience came in handy.
- weinzierl 3y agoI believe ours were also RS/6000's but I'm not sure because it was a long time ago. Those were rented machines with an expensive per-hour service contract. My company didn't want to pay for the setup so we did it ourselves. Totally possible the machines were misconfigured deliberately to make us pay for the setup service or maybe they were just in the state the previous customer had let them and that didn't fit our network. Anyways my point was more that with this old tech you'll probably spend a lot of time on boring details before you'll even get to the fun part, like running DB2.