[Maybe OT] A/UX installation

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 11 22:46:56 2002

> > 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.

Ah, interesting. My IIci has a 300i connected to it, so no worries.

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