A/UX install notes

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 21:17:40 2002

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> For those who asked, I put up my A/UX install notes on
>
> http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/
>
> YMMV.

  Yep. My Mileage Varied a lot. I did finally pick up that IIci last
week (total cost 1 8M AGP PC video card) and got around to installing it
the last 2 days. It wouldn't boot the A/UX install floppy at all with
the 16M SIMMs installed. So I installed & upgraded to v3.1 with 20M.
The MacOS 7.1-installed disk that it came with liked 80M just fine,
after I turned on 32-bit addressing. So I was fairly sure the RAM itself
is sound.

  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.

  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.

  Never saw the flashing clock icon before either. My Mac battery bill
has been awesome this year.

  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.

  I got into the spirit of the thing a couple of weeks ago & grabbed a
DiiMO cache/CPU upgrade. ShaZaam! The benchmarks show ~40% overall
performance boost, but the feel is much snappier.
  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?

        Doc
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 21:17:40 GMT

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