Cold reboot didn't work and after hot reboot I couldn't get the command line in reasonable time. At first the site was accessed but next the connection disrupted and 'bus error' appeared. Then I pasted-copied all commands from the How-To and this time succeeded! Pinging the host worked! I wanted more and via 'smitty tcpip' configured DHCP network.Probably it was necessary to reboot but I didn't do that and entered 'telnet ' on the command line. odmget command showed 0x1000000 value instead of 0x01000000. Either because I was not attentive enough (it was very late at night) or because I used Tab symbols within cat command (maybe Spaces were needed?), but I failed. As I made installation of all available software, system defaulted to boot into graphical desktop, which made it inconvenient (though possible) logging to text console.Īt that moment I saw the new Artyom's post concerning network and tried to configure it.

Good news is that software may be installed via smitty while I haven't found a way to mount CDs in AIX yet (I am completely new in AIX world). I am reinstalling AIX 5.1 now as it became non-bootable (or maybe long-booting? have no patience to wait) after yesterday experiments installing additional software from 5 AIX CDs.