I am trying to find a download site for Linux for POWER..Is there such a place?

Within the same physical server, I would use alt disk install to clone a system on to another disk, which with partitioning you should be able to move around and make a new partition out of. 

Across servers, as you have a tape drive, why not use that with a good old fashioned mksysb to tape - not the fastest way, but the simplest.

Unmount the filesystem comtaining the problem home directory and check the permissions of the mount point directory - check you have at least "x" permission for the user you are trying to connect with FTP.

Apparently BSD UNIX protocols check the underlying mount point permissions as well as what you can see when the filesystem is mounted, if you don't have at least "x" permission, things give errors like this.

It's a good idea to have no access to the mount point to create files by accident in what will be a hidden directory, covered by the mounted filesystem, and a "chmod 111 /mount/point" may be the best recommendation for permissions.

I have an AIX 5.2 LPAR that I need to backup\restore or clone or copy or whatever the correct terminology is, onto a different server and then upgrade that copy to AIX 6.1 for testing.  What is the best\easiest way to do that.

LPAR that needs to be copied is on a P550 with 3 other LPARS no VIO
Server it needs to get copied to is a P510 with 1 other LPAR and a single VIO

I do not currently have a NIM server but could set one up

Both are attached to an IBM DS4300 via fiber for storage, both have some local disk.

We do all our backups with TSM to LTO4 drives over the network.  I do my makesysb tapes with AIT3 drives and tapes hooked directly to the servers.

Downtime on this particular LPAR is fairly easy to get if necessary.

What are my options, best practices, easiest way to do what i want?

Thanks
Nate

when ftp'ing into the box and issuing the pwd command I get a 550 getwd subroutine failed message. I can run other commands in the home directory and cd to other directories and get output from pwd command. I have compared the permissions with another working system, but can find no differences. Anyone have any ideas on how to get round this problem.

It is a long time since I have had hardware that is not supported, or does not appear to be supported.

I had understood that it was with several devices, AND that these are "partitions" with all resources assigned to them.

Please run the following commands:

odmget -q name=cd0 CuDv

odmget -q name=cd0 CuAt

lsdev -C | grep cd0

and lastly, the output (error message) of cfgmgr and also of oslevel -s

Michael

I think I was misunderstood.
It is not the same device. I’m talking about a built in cdrom, which comes with any P5 computer. We have several P5 computers with the exact hardware specification and
None of them can use its built in cdrom (the device is not recognized under the OS – Aix 5.3 TL7sp1) although I created a partition that is using all the resources in the system.
Strange thing is that the OS was installed from the built in cdrom device.

Lior
 

Have you verified that the CD can be read by any system? I do not think it is a 100% check, as it is not booting, but can a PC read the CD?

Seems very strange that three systems cannot read the disk.

And, also, I would recommend verifying the firmware levels of the systems and the devices. The easiest way is to probably download the .iso image and burn that to a CD - except you cannot read the CD - chicken/egg problem. So, burn the CD and then ftp the files to an AIX system. There is also a README file to explain how you can run the commands and queries from a command line.

Quicklink via vgBookmarks vgBookmarks->Downloads->Maintenance Microcode update files on CD-ROM

p.s. There seems to be two .iso images. Probably you need the:
io_image.iso: Created May 07, 2008
I/O Microcode Update Files and Discovery Tool CD-ROM image

find / ! -size 0 > file
(Note this will also miss out any other 0 length files on the system, i.e. device files, named pipes, etc.)

find / -type f -o -type c -o -type b -o -type s -o -type p ! -size 0 > file

Hi.
I'm running a site with multiple RS6000 servers. ( 9119-590, 9117-570, & 9133-55A )
I am not using partitioning so basically I created 1 partition that is using all the resources the machine has to offer.
 
Any how,
Every server comes with a built in cdrom but mysteriously, It can not be recognized by the OS ( Aix 5.3 Tl07sp1 ).
This is strange though since all the servers were tested by booting from the diagnostic cd so the built in cdrom device is obviously connected and working just fine.

Any other devices ( DDS5 tape and an external SCSI cdrom that connected to a pci SCSI card )
are recognized by the OS and working just fine.

Any suggestions on how to use the built in cdrom ?

Thanks in advance,

Lior