IBM RS/6000 43p Model 140 Unix Workstation (1996)

Taking a look at an IBM RS/6000 43p Model 140 Unix workstation from 1996. We'll disassemble and clean it, boot into its System Management Services firmware, and fire up some big IBM pSeries Power 5 enterprise servers to setup a RIPL boot server. We'll try to get AIX's Network Installation Management running properly and boot this RS/6000 as a diskless workstation over the network.

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00:00 Intro
00:41 RS/6000 43p Overview
03:33 Disassembly and Cleaning
14:33 Powering it On
19:29 RIPL Overview
21:24 IBM pSeries Machines
26:59 Powering up the HMC
33:58 Powering up the p5 Servers
37:18 AIX LPARs
44:23 Setting up a NIM Master
48:56 RIPL Boot Attempts
53:37 Next Steps