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  • AIX Install Disk Image Format

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Jan 26 20:02:01 2024
    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?

    Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 1/26/24 19:33, Grant Taylor wrote:
    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.




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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Jan 26 20:33:41 2024
    On 1/26/24 20:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    So what will read it in the Windows world?

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



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Jan 26 21:22:15 2024
    You got that, Lorenzo?

    Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 1/26/24 20:02, Louis Ohland wrote:
    So what will read it in the Windows world?

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




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