Need help with OLD SCHOOL AIX

Whats up ppl...

I'm at a loss here.. Getting help with old versions of AIX is quite stressful lol...

Anyways.. My situation is that I (my company) has an old Powerserver 220 running AIX 3.2.5.

The server is about to crap out, and we need to move the system over to a newer box.

I've performed a mksysb on the old system and that was sucessfull.

I know have a IBM RS/6000 7043-150 Server which was pursches used from Elarasys in the US.

On the HD the previous owner had AIX 5 installed, which boots, but I do not know the root password.

Either way i'm not interested in AIX at the moment... What I'd like to do is restore my backup onto the new box... and that is proving to be very difficult.

The boot device is set to Floppy, Tape, CDR, Ethernet...

So it does access the tape at the begining for about 3-4 mins, and then just continues to boot the OS on the HD (AIX 5). And I have no idea why.

Also, currently all of the subsystems on the old server seem to be not responding anymore... the one I especially need is qdaemon... if I try to check the subsystems through SMIT or manualy through startsrc I get an error msg:

0513-056 Timeout waiting for command response.

Any idea how I can re-start these subsystem(s)??

I'm really in a pickle here... no one can print because of this, and everyone is freeking out...

Any help on either of these issues would be great!

Regards,

Sascha

You should first mount the root filesystem on a different CPU-platform and change the root password , so you can administer the platform properly.

This means removing the hard drive and mounting it on another platform, temporarily, and editing the password file.

^^^ I've done one step better.. i'm currently installing or should i say re-installing AIX onto the box now...

My main worry is bringing over Informix and the accounting front end and getting it to work without actually installing it (as per say).

I know under windows, most programs don't like to be copied over, you HAVE to install them... but i've heard different about informix and even other programs under UNIX/AIX

What I'm really in need of right now is to find out why the subsystems aren't working on the old server...

The main problem you are going to have is that 3.2.5 is not supported on the model 150. It's too new. Plus you're going from Microchannel to PCI hardware architecture. You won't be able to just do a restore. You could however copy data off the tape on the new machine if you had media (cd/tape) for aix 5.x