Reading AIX 1.x floppies

[Louis Ohland]

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.

[Grant Taylor]

Post by Louis Ohland
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 Taylor]

Post by Grant Taylor
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.

[Louis Ohland]

https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/AIX_Install_Disk_Image_Format.html

"Douglas Hall diddled about and came up with:
After a bit of experimenting witht the various formats (dd, tar,
cpio etc,) it finally turns out the format of the floppies is the aix
backup format. "

So what will read it in the Windows world?

Post by Grant Taylor

Post by Grant Taylor
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.

[Grant Taylor]

Post by Louis Ohland
So what will read it in the Windows world?

AIX 1.3 running in VM connected to the (virtual) floppy drive.

[Louis Ohland]

You got that, Lorenzo?

Post by Grant Taylor

Post by Louis Ohland
So what will read it in the Windows world?

AIX 1.3 running in VM connected to the (virtual) floppy drive.