给你一个官方标准答案吧：:P
You will likely not need all 8 volumes of media. The install process will prompt you for the volumes it requires as the installation proceeds. Below is a brief description of each volume :


Volume 1
Contains the minimal Base Operating System (BOS) software installed on every system, as well as all devices and both kernels, and the English message catalogs. To install a system with only "Volume 1" from the BOS menu, set Desktop to NONE, change the default for Graphics bundle to No, and change the default for System Management Client bundle to No.
Volume 2
Contains software to install the Graphics bundle, and to set the Desktop to CDE. System management software, X11 software and Java software are on this CD and on Volume 3.
Volume 3
Contains system management software, printer software, as well as additional CSM, RSCT, Fortran, and Java software.
Volume 4
Contains pieces of Open_GL, PEX_PHIGS, LDAP, and DB2® software that comes with AIX.
Volume 5
Contains software for installing AIX in other languages. Messages, help text, and locales for German, French, Italian and Japanese are included.
Volume 6
Contains software for installing AIX in other languages. Messages, help text, and locales for Catalan, Czech, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Slovakian are included.
Volume 7
Contains software for installing AIX in other languages. Messages, help text, and locales for Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese are included.
Volume 8
Contains software to support bidirectional and complex text languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Welch, Maltese, Azerbaijani-Latin, Urdu (India), and Urdu (Pakistan). Chinese language support for Hong Kong and Singapore is also included.