> For those who asked, I put up my A/UX install
notes on
>
>
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/
>
> YMMV.
I've put A/UX on the SE/30, the Q650, and now
this IIci, and never
seen the reboot failure associated with not making an Autorecovery disk
slice. A/UX always boots right up, builds its kernel and wants to
reboot.
Mine seized up immediately. Very interesting. How many partitions on the disk?
What versions of A/UX were the others running?
I have yet to get a Seagate drive to work in a Mac
with its own
terminators. Enter a 2-device cable and active terminator. So there.
The Seagate Hawk in the IIci is working great :-)
Memory. After upgrading to A/UX 3.1, I can run 4
16M simms in Bank A.
If I put the 4M simms in Bank A and the 32M simms in Bank B, I show 16M
total. If I put the 16s in A and the 4s in B, the Mac thinks it has
100M. This may have something to do with the fact that the 16M simms
are non-parity and the 4M simms are parity.
I'm accepting clues. For that matter, I'm cool with just having 64M.
Very strange. The NetBSD IIci has 16MB SIMMs all the way through it, but I'm
running NetBSD on that, not A/UX. :-) The parity shouldn't make a difference
though.
Cute little bugger. I might have to put NetBSD or
Linux on it, if I
can master sharing the harddrive. Am I remembering correctly that
there's no drive size limitation?
NetBSD doesn't have one, at least not in the modern versions (older ones
didn't either but you'd get a lot of spurious errors -- I got a lot of
scary but ultimately painless messages doing a newfs on a 2GB drive).
I don't yet trust Linux/mac68k.
--
----------------------------- personal page:
http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. -- Alfred Jarry -----