Getting into debugger on Apollo machines

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:18 -0500, Bob Shannon wrote: Yep - the 4xx machines have a switch on the front; it's on the back for DN3000 and DN3500 machines. It was just the install manual that was confusing me, as it says "make sure you're *not* in service mode to install the OS" - but it seems that being in service mode is the only way of getting into the debugger in order to kick off the OS install :-) Actually, the only way the manual mentions getting to the debugger prompt is from a running copy of the OS. I assume that Apollo shipped their machines with a copy of the OS installed, and installing onto blank media was a service call (which probably makes sense as I bet you weren't supposed to put your own drives in there, but buy them through Apollo) That or they helpfully left the "install from blank media" bit out of the manual :-) I'll try starting in service mode and then flicking to normal mode when I get the debugger prompt before kicking the install off. That just doesn't seem logical to me though - personally I'd expect the machine to always be in service or normal mode between boots, not able to flick between the two under user control. At least once I have one machines set up with an authorised area I can install the others over the network from the first, which'll save a lot of hassle :-) cheers Jules