AIX 4.2.1 Install GUI By default AIX 4 doesn't install X11 or any graphical desktop if there is no graphics adaptor recognized by the installation system, because there was no such beast during install. But it is easy to repair. smitty -> Software Installation and Maintenance -> Install and Update Software -> Install Software Bundle (Easy Install) Then you select the device with the CD 1 of your installation media and then you have the choice of different bundles. Start with the "Client Bundle" and go! AIX automatically selects and installs all packages which are defined in the Bundle file (which is a plain text file with a list of package names). Next AIX will estimate the needed free space in the filesystems and automatically increase them. At least if there is enough free disk space available to the volume group "rootvg". If not, you must add another physical hard disk to the volume group. For a AIX 4.2.1 with X11, CDE, man pages and CDE help installed in en_US you'll need 500MB or more. Also the X11 server and the CDE windows manager eats a lot of RAM. Don't try this whith 16 MByte RAM only. Depending on how much RAM your machine has you may need increasing the swap logical volume. "lsps -a" shows the actual status of swap. If you want to know, how much free disk space is available: "df -k" shows how much is available in the mounted filesystems in kilobytes. "lsvg rootvg" shows the disk space available on the disk(s) available in the volume groug "rootvg" for creating new logical volumes or increasing the existing. Since AIX can increase filesystems while they are active, there is nothing wrong when you only see very limited space free with "df -k" even if you have a large disk. If you want to increase a mounted filesystem simply type "chfs -a size= /home" for the filesystem mounted at /home. But beware: you cannot shrink a filesystem too large to make room for increasing another. All this works on every AIX 3.1 or later. If you want to know what packages are installed: "lslpp -l all" -- Uli