Re: Newbie questions: installing i5/OS V5R4M0 on a 9406-800; re-using installed license keys.

I acquired an 820 with no other information and I had my best success with it by going the LAN console route. I didn't have a twinax console or HMC lying around. LAN console is not shareable with normal LAN communications so you'll need a second card once you gain access to the system. Google around, you have to change your console to LAN console using the front panel and additionally you have to use front panel to reset your SST QSYSOPR password if you don't know it.

As soon as you get in, make a whole bunch of new and unused console devices in SST (i.e. QCONSOLE1, QCONSOLE2, etc) because if you reinstall windows on your console or have an HDD crash or something else, regaining console access is difficult. You can't change devices under DST under default settings.

Don't reinstall, you don't need to (for sure).

Thanks,
Mark

On 12/7/2012 2:30 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

Be aware that the serial connections is NOT a simple tty like in AIX.
It's not so simple as just plugging the cable and starting putty...
You have to use the Operations Console program and BEG the system to
work (ah and forget windows 7, the weird encapsulation protocol it
used died on windows XP).
Go to the infocenter and read up on the various console options,
nowadays i recommend HMC (shame it's so expensive almost no one here
buys it), but for the 800 i would use twinax and after installing the
system, lan console (it's a lot easier to configure lan console once
you have some console working).
Also, remember the cards and positions needed for console (all that is
explained in the infocenter page)