11 Feb
2002
11 Feb
'02
6:40 a.m.
I think A/UX 3.0 is only 7 years old, so its not really on topic, but it
_is_ dead, so that has to account for something!
I recently downloaded the CD image of the A/UX 3.0.1 installation CD & a
boot disk from http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html
I got the boot disk extracted (it was a diskcopy_image) and the CD image
itself was gzipped. I gunzipped it on my linux box and burned it onto a
CD with:
cdrecord -speed 8 -dev 0,6,0 -eject -v AUX_3.0.1_Install.toast_image
When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok, and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
With this bit of experimentation, it looks like the CD image isn't
right.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele(a)indiana.edu
11 Feb
11 Feb
9:02 a.m.
cdrecord -speed 8 -dev 0,6,0 -eject -v
AUX_3.0.1_Install.toast_image
I don't know if this works or not. I don't know if the image is "real
ISO"
(I used Toast, so I couldn't say).
When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok,
and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
No, it shouldn't be. Toast complained about it too, but it worked fine
for installation. The boot disk is needed to mount it.
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3:16 p.m.
On 11 Feb 2002, Brian Wheeler wrote:
When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok,
and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX.
Doc
5:46 p.m.
When I try to
boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok, and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX. 
7:55 p.m.
At 08:16 PM 11/02/2002 -0600, Doc wrote:
On 11 Feb 2002, Brian Wheeler wrote:
Isn't there an issue with sector size. VMS systems want 512 byte sectors
and most PCs (and I'm guessing Macs too) want 2048 byte sectors. Certainly
the RRD42 I tried to get to work in my mother's Mac didn't....
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works
ok, and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX.
12 Feb
12 Feb
5:39 a.m.
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 21:16, Doc wrote:
On 11 Feb 2002, Brian Wheeler wrote:
hehe, the toshiba cd I tried was one of those "yeeha! it'll work with
VMS" drives ;)
After doing a bit more poking and prodding, I grabbed "pdisk" which
comes with linux/mac and it prints out the partition tables of the
attached scsi devices. it looks like the disk was written correctly
since when it scans the scsi bus, it finds a valid mac partition table
w/7 partitions....so the CD is ok.
Anyone know if it is possible to write the disk image (raw) to a disk
and get AUX to boot from that?
Brian
When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works
ok, and it starts to
search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX.
Doc
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