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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:16:05 +0100
> From: "Aro Hirohi" <arohirohi(a)hotmail.com>
> Subject: HP Apollo DN5500 disk and sysboot
> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <Law15-DAV19gFrYILoy00004a51(a)hotmail.com>
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> I am trying to salvage a nice Apollo DN5500 server. Unfortunately I had to swap the original Maxtor ESDI 760 HD - it makes a clunky noise - for a lower capacity Micropolis and I have some difficulties to reinstall DomainOS software.
> The system starts under service mode. It can read a bootable tape and install the mini DomainOS software but it cannot boot DomainOS directly from the hard disk ... it dies with an "Error: sysboot not found"
>
> What I've done ...
> in service mode, with a 10.3.4 boot tape inserted,
> > re
> > di c
> > ex config, ex calendar, ex invol ... to enter the new hd configuration, setup date/time and format hd then ...
> > ex domain_os ... does a lot of shoeshinning, copy base OS from tape to hd and says that sysboot is found and skipped ...
> ) go ... goes to HP logo and login or ) sh runs a text shell ... I was delighted ... but now if I shutdown and reboot the system in normal mode, it passes the tests ok but fails to start the base OS complaining about "sysboot not found". Same result in service mode if I do a > re and > ex domain_os.
> Considering that it boots fine from a tape, I assume that the sysboot is not a eprom program and that it has been erased by formatting the drive. Does anybody know how to install the sysboot. Does it have anything to do with the 40KB file copied from the tape to //nodeXXX/sysboot on the hard disk?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Aro
>
> Hi, Aro
Did you set up the bad spot list inside Invol ??? Is the drive a listed
size drive 170, 380 or 760 meg ?? The "System boot" is the code that
gets you from the Rom monitor to the System OS. You should be
able to enter "ld" at the monitor prompt and the system will list the
machine dependent boot files (not system boot). The "system boot"
is installed when the drive is involed. It is also checked when the
OS is loaded. That's why you get the message that it was found and
is being skipped. If the monitor can't find any system files do a "di w"
and try again.
I still have a Apollo ring here with a working AA install area. if you get in
a jam contact me by email. The tapes are not reliable in age and can
have fatal errors if used a lot.
Jerry
Jerry Wright
JLC inc
Jay,
Are you alive? Return-receipt requested...
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On Dec 6, 10:40, Bob Brown wrote:
> How can I get this to run under hpux (the system that has my 9-track
tape
> drive)? I am getting compile errors when I run 'make'...it wants to
find
> things like tapeio.d and someother .d files (and there are .c files
and 1
> .h file but no .d files).
If you want to use the Makefile you need gmake (GNU make) not an
ordinary make, and gcc, because the rule that creates the .d files from
.c files uses gcc-specific switches.
I didn't bother. I compiled Eric's utilities on an SGI running IRIX,
with the IRIX C compiler, like this:
cc -O -fullwarn -o tsbextract tsbextract.c tapeio.c
cc -O -fullwarn -o tsbdecode tsbdecode.c tapeio.c
("-fullwarn" is the IRIX cc equivalent of gcc's "-Wall").
If you want to use tsbdecode (to list BASIC programs), ask Eric if you
can have the updated version (tsbdecode is a work-in-progress, and I
recently sent him an update which takes it a bit further towards its
goal).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hello Tony
I am interested in selling a Master 128 computer.
I was referred to your site by a friend in computing.
I thought that I might boot it up again, and with the use of its RS232 port I would use it as a controller for a variety of electronic projects (such as are sold at Tandy's or in Australia Dick Smith Electronics's).
But I have become more interested in traditional photography.
It is a BBC master 128 computer. And I have a circuit board to upgrade it to a 512.
I have the 2 manuals that go with it, each is nearly an inch thick, and I have the manual from the computer it was derived from, the BBC B, again nearly an inch thick. The earlier manual heavily complements the Master 128 manuals; it is a great shame it wasn't sold with them. It would have saved me some grief.
I also have a workshop manual for it including wiring diagrams and diagnostics.
I have two single 5 and a quarter inch disk drives plus a heap of original discs
and software.
I have a stack of computer magazines, over 2 feet tall, which include programs and electronics projects for interfacing all sorts of devices with it.
I used to use my colour tv as my monitor and an Epson FX 80 dot matrix as my printer.
Regards
David Constable
On Dec 9, 18:15, Paul Williams wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> [Quoting headers from one of Tony's emails]
>
> > Content-Type: text
> >
> > Moreover, they have no attachments, no hooks for attachments, and
> > nothing other than correct ASCII headers and plain ASCII text (as,
> > indeed, the headers indicate).
>
> This header is invalid according to RFC 2045, because it should
contain
> a type and subtype (in this case, it should be text/plain).
True, it should contain a subtype. On the other hand, the header is
only required if the mail uses MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions). RFC2045 allows *extensions* -- but does not require them.
RFC822 is authoritative for plain-text messages, and that header
simply shouldn't be there at all. It shouldn't appear without the rest
of the MIME stuff, anyway. I guess ELM is based on an out-of-date
(not-quite-)standard (RFC1049), though even then that header is illegal
according to RFC1049.
Not, however, an excuse for some broken software to consider plain text
to be a virus.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
For the Mac lovers on the list check out the Jan 2004 Special Collector's
Edition of MacAddict for the write-up on the 20 years of Mac's. Starts on
page 20 and goes to page 33 nice pic's and article.
Has anyone heard of, or have, the AppleBus Developer's Handbook?
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On Dec 8, 22:36, Michael Holley wrote:
>
> > Does anybody else have trouble with routinely receiving a virus in
place
> of
> > the proper collection of messages which constitute an issue from
this
> > group?
>
> All of the messages from Tony Duell come as an attached .ksh file.
This may
> trigger your virus software
>
> His messages in the web archive are also that way.
Eh? Don't believe everything you see in a mailing list archive :-)
Something to do with the archive (and maybe the digest? Are you guys
getting the list (it's a mailing list, not a group) in digest form?) is
misunderstanding something -- and apparently so is your Outlook
Express, if it tells you that Tony's messages are anything other than
normal ASCII email.
Tony's using ELM, a perfectly respected mailer. There's *no*
attachment at all in Tony's messages, and if there were, the mailing
list would strip it off. What you're seeing are messages without a
MIME type, and something is trying to make them fit an inappropriate
mould. They don't appear on the list with any attachment when I
receive them, and messages I've had from Tony directly certainly are
not like that. They have headers like this:
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 03:04:53 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <1070934186.3030.321.camel(a)dhcp166-138.ace.uci.edu> from
"Tom
Jennings" at Dec 8, 3 05:43:06 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2]
Content-Type: text
Subject: Re: Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system
RTE6/VM?
not like this:
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:46:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> Subject: Re: Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system
> RTE6/VM?
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
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Moreover, they have no attachments, no hooks for attachments, and
nothing other than correct ASCII headers and plain ASCII text (as,
indeed, the headers indicate). Whats in the archive is also plain
text, so whatever is deciding that it's "non-text" is wrong.
Jay, is something broken?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
A friend is shutting down a business and has a quantity of
hardware available.
His schedule for getting rid of this is by 12/31/2003, so do
not respond to this after that time (like in 7/2004 at least) as
he will probably be successful in getting rid of stuff.
modems, disk drives, tape drives, all sorts of cards. the disk
drives are up to 1gb and may be of use in older minis as well
as older PC's. The tape drives are the same.
He also has a large amount of printer supplies and documentation
available (Al K?)
Please email:
harold(a)crsinc-pa.com
or call:
215 674 1399
CRS incorporated.
ask for harold, he can tell you what he has and what
he wants for it. If you are in the eastern pennsylvania
area, you might go get larger amounts.
Thanks
Jim
> Does anybody else have trouble with routinely receiving a virus in place
of
> the proper collection of messages which constitute an issue from this
> group?
All of the messages from Tony Duell come as an attached .ksh file. This may
trigger your virus software
His messages in the web archive are also that way.
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/
Michael Holley
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:46:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system
RTE6/VM?
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