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Operating Systems AIX mksysb restoration using NIM Post 302410510 by depam on Tuesday 6th of April 2010 07:26:00 AM
Old 04-06-2010
Hi bakunin,

Thanks alot for the info and I'm very sorry to ask you to talk privately. It is not my intention. Just to ask, is this the steps to do this:

1.) unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk1
2.) reducevg rootvg hdisk1
3.) do a mksysb backup
4.) bootlist -m normal hdisk1
5.) bosboot -a hdisk0
6.) bosboot -a hdisk1
7.) nim_bosinst on NIM server
8.) System will reboot and point the boot device to ethernet
9.) install on hdisk1

The system will boot and hdisk1, bring up HA and test. If everything okay how can I remirror back? I actually don't know how to make the client boot from nim. I already checked that there is /tftpboot in place and that /etc/bootptab already have the client IP addresses. Please note that NIM was previously used to install the base OS. But I have never really done this before. Thanks.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

isibootd

ISIBOOTD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       ISIBOOTD(8)

NAME

     isibootd -- TRFS based network boot server

SYNOPSIS

     isibootd [-d tracelevel] [-i interface] [-s directory]

DESCRIPTION

     The isibootd command is a server which supports OMRON LUNA's network boot protocol based on the Transparent Remote File System (TRFS) proto-
     col.  The TRFS protocol uses special Ethernet type packets and works within a local network.

     isibootd is a simple TRFS server that only supports client reads for booting and exports files in a specified directory.  isibootd accepts
     requests only from clients listed in the /etc/ethers and have valid hostnames.

     The options are as follows:

     -d tracelevel
		 Run isibootd in debug mode with specified tracelevel.	The tracelevel can be value 1, 2, or 3, and greater tracelevel provides
		 more detailed trace output.  The server will not fork in the debug mode.

     -i interface
		 Specify a network interface to service network boot.  If not specified isibootd searches available network interfaces (excluding
		 loopback) and use the first configured ``up'' one.

     -s directory
		 Specify a directory containing boot files to be served by isibootd.  If not specified isibootd uses /tftpboot by default.

FILES

     /etc/ethers
     /etc/hosts
     /tftpboot
     /var/run/isibootd.pid

SEE ALSO

     ethers(5), hosts(5), tftpd(8)

     http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/luna68k/install.html

HISTORY

     isibootd is based on isiboot utility which was originally written by Tohru Nishimura for NetBSD/luna68k development, and first appeared in
     NetBSD 6.0.

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