In my case, it's strictly a mksysb to the 8mm DAT drive on the Control
Work Station - or the 'standard' SP mksysb to an NFS-mounted directory
on the boot/install server for the node. Also, our ADSM server is a 77
MHz wide node with two internal 4.5 GB drives. It's dedicated to ADSM,
so it made sense (to me, anyway) to grab that second internal drive for
boot-install purposes. It gives me the space for the spot and the pssp
code as well as the individual node boot images (sigh - they're *all*
different).

Give me my two 8mm DAT tapes, my two 3590 carts (the dbbackup and the
co-located ADSM server backup) and I'm ready to take a stab at
rebuilding my SP environment on stone-cold hardware. Now if I could only
get us to seriously look at a hot site. . .

Tom Kauffman
Sr. Technical Analyst
NIBCO, Inc.

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>From:  IM Tech IBM[SMTP:IBM1 AT MEPCOM-SMTP.ARMY DOT MIL]
>Sent:  Wednesday, August 20, 1997 2:40 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Re: AIX  SP -Reply
>
>What a refreshing series of postings for a subject matter not full of
>Windows NT, Windows 95 or Novell Server client issues.  The various
>approaches used are very interesting.  I especially like the idea of using
>the CWS to launch/build the adsm server.  When you say you use a
>mksysb do you really mean it or do you use SYSBACK which does use
>mksysb.
>