Bull DPX/2 and B.O.S. help wanted.

[Pontus Pihlgren]

Yes.

The primary reaspn I'm working with this system is because I 
want to give it away to someone with more knowledge and more 
importantly, more time.

But I need to remove some sensitive data first. Wipeing the 
whole disk  is doable but not prefered.

It's just scsi disks so if there is any other system, perhaps 
emulated, that can read and write the file system formay that 
might be a viable option.

What system might be able to do that?

/P

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:38:10PM +0100, Raymond Wiker wrote:
> This was from an install floppy, which means that it had (probably) only
> mounted a mini-root file system, and was (again, probably) running a shell
> with restricted functionality.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:28 AM, E. Groenenberg <ed at groenenberg.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Pontus.
> >
> > As far as I remember, DPX/2 uses AT&T System 5 rel. 0 with some additions
> > in the terminal database for the specific Bull terminals.
> >
> > So, basically all standard command could be find in the usual places.
> >
> > Ed
> > --
> > Ik email, dus ik besta.
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> >
> > On Thu, February 4, 2016 21:50, Pontus wrote:
> > > On 02/03/2016 09:35 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> I have a OS install kit with bootable floppies and I managed to get a
> > >>> prompt using the "boot_unix" floppy and following the manuals that I
> > >>> have.
> > >>>
> > >>> However, not even "ls" would work from this prompt, only "cat". (You
> > >>> are
> > >>> supposed to enter "os_install", but I don't want to mess up the
> > >>> existing
> > >>> installtion.
> > >>>
> > >> I don't have experience with Bull at all. However, I have some
> > >> experience with other limited environments.
> > >> Does "echo" work?
> > >> If it does, you can try "echo *" as a (poor) substitute for "ls".
> > >> Apologies if you already know this.
> > >>
> > >> HTH
> > >
> > > Rather obvious, but I hadn't though of it. Thank you. Will try it next
> > > time.
> > >
> > > /P
> > >
> >
> >