Yip had a manager do that on a clients site, bestpart was the kit was so new that only a few in the country and the install set for the OS had not arrived and no backups.  Was new machine and been partialy configured, awaiting tapes.<p>Luckily anotehr client had the same RS&#x2F;6000 (think 3rd in the country outside IBM) and was able to borrow there install DAT to bring AIX back to life.<p>Odd as had problem with RT&#x2F;6150 in which (nobody admitted it) had similiar problem and that involved to get it limping along copying files from a working system onto this holed system to fill the gaps.  Which given the eventual reinstall that weekend took most of the weekend only to find that floppy disk 70 odd was corrupt, much fun.<p>But *nix is great as always more than one way to get things done and on many systems can also be true.<p>Still good education in not only backups, but backup integrity as you never know when you want to read them back.