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Beginner's questions about AIX (6.1)
Post 302520504 by kenashkov on Saturday 7th of May 2011 05:50:15 PM
05-07-2011
Beginner's questions about AIX (6.1)
Hello,
For some time I have intellistation 9111-285 and I installed AIX 6.1 on it. As a complete beginner I have 2 questions in general about AIX and two specific:
1. is the SMS (system management services) part of AIX? As I noticed when I had Yellowdog Linux installed they weren't available?
2. How picky is AIX about hardware? As my workstation came without sound card can I use some PC sound card (like I have emu10k SB Live) or I have to get the only supported sound card for 9111-285: IBM part 8244? What is the general situation with non IBM hardware - are there any OEM pieces that match the original parts? Like in DEC/VMS I used some generic SCSI controllers & video adapters... For example I know that the GXT135P is a matrox G400 with an IBM BIOS (which is still not good enough if you don't have an original card to dump the BIOS).
The specific questions:
3. I would like to use it as a workstation hence would love to have KDE running. I'm trying to install it from the configassist tool -> manage software -> bundle -> from the DVD. The installation fails with the following error:
The same when I try to install Gnome.
It seems KDE is not in fact present on the installation media and this is just installation script and is expected to have the KDE files from somewhere else?
Right now I have only CDE running.
4. I installed AIX through the serial console and now when the system boots the GUI login screen is not shown until I login through the serial console. Once I do it it appears. How can I change this (so there is no need of serial connection)?
Thank you for reading this long list of questions
Vesko Kenashkov
For some time I have intellistation 9111-285 and I installed AIX 6.1 on it. As a complete beginner I have 2 questions in general about AIX and two specific:
1. is the SMS (system management services) part of AIX? As I noticed when I had Yellowdog Linux installed they weren't available?
2. How picky is AIX about hardware? As my workstation came without sound card can I use some PC sound card (like I have emu10k SB Live) or I have to get the only supported sound card for 9111-285: IBM part 8244? What is the general situation with non IBM hardware - are there any OEM pieces that match the original parts? Like in DEC/VMS I used some generic SCSI controllers & video adapters... For example I know that the GXT135P is a matrox G400 with an IBM BIOS (which is still not good enough if you don't have an original card to dump the BIOS).
The specific questions:
3. I would like to use it as a workstation hence would love to have KDE running. I'm trying to install it from the configassist tool -> manage software -> bundle -> from the DVD. The installation fails with the following error:
Quote:
0503-451 installp: After completion of pre-installation processing, there were no valid filesets left to process. No processing occured.
It seems KDE is not in fact present on the installation media and this is just installation script and is expected to have the KDE files from somewhere else?
Right now I have only CDE running.
4. I installed AIX through the serial console and now when the system boots the GUI login screen is not shown until I login through the serial console. Once I do it it appears. How can I change this (so there is no need of serial connection)?
Thank you for reading this long list of questions
Vesko Kenashkov
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