Hello everyone, Im relatively new to AIX systems. I currently have two power servers in isolated network.
I managed to setup AIX 7.1, however i was presented with two AIX DVD-01 and DVD-02, i thought they were both required for installing AIX. However i found that AIX was installed using only DVD-01. DVD-02 was never been able to be burned on USB using rufus.
Now im having the following difficulties:
1- I found that many packages arent installed by default like openSSH, Bash Shell
2- I cant find a way to use the installation ISO file as a local repository as in linux distributions.
I saw that there are something called expansion pack but don't know how to get it, im not sure in it is the DVD-02 ?
I need help to build the local repository for AIX.
Thnaks in advance.
Hi gebo. Thanks for your question and welcome to the forums. A reminder that there is no need to post a question in multiple forums. The release notes for 7.1 contain a lot of the information you're looking for IBM Documentation including installation of OpenSSH. Hope this helps. Cheers, Keith
You can have things like offline repository, but it is not really like the ones in Linux distros. You can copy the contents of the DVD to a local FS using gencopy command like this:
gencopy -d /mnt/dvd_mounted_here -t /location/for/packages -bv all
You can use the same target location for all the DVDs. And then use this location as source in SMIT install.
There is a way fancier method: you can set up a NIM server - even locally - and use that as lpp_source. But having only 2 servers it might be an overkill.