New to list - with a DG/UX question

From: Alan Greenstreet <aeg_at_paradise.net.nz>
Date: Mon Apr 7 19:19:00 2003

On Tuesday, Apr 8, 2003, at 09:59 Pacific/Auckland, r. 'bear' stricklin
wrote:


> If it's an m88k machine, your conclusion is accurate. Folks have been
> working on porting NetBSD to the AViiON family, but I doubt it's far
> enough along to be anything but frustrating at this point.

Yes it is an m88k machine and I have tried the ports of NetBSD and
OpenBSD both of which have developmental ports (mainly for the mvme88k
boards). From what I've been told the Aviion has a completely separate
I/O subsystem for which there is little info available (to quote the
developer of the current port) - Lucky Me! :0)

> Yes, you can boot the OS from CD. It would be helpful to know what
> you've
> tried, and what error messages the system is generating.

I have found an archive of DG manuals for the Aviion

http://www-csc.dg.com/csc/custdocsasp/
custdocs2.asp?category=014archv.asp

and from here found some info on booting from CD. The system is
recognising the CD drive and it spins up without any problems (I know
it works as I have used it on my Sun systems).
Typing "boot sd(ncsc(0,7),3,0)" should boot the install programme. I
get the very unhelpful "unable to boot file sd(ncsc(0,7),3,0)" error
message. There is no mention of this error message in the docs so far.
>
> If 4.0 came before 5.4, it may be too old for the 8500, but I'm not
> sure
> that either is the case. It's on CD so it can't be THAT old.

Mmm... this is where I come unstuck... I have been searching for a copy
of DG/UX for about 3 months, contacting many companies and seeing
nothing on ebay (and local auctions). I eventually found a guy in
Holland who listed it in his computer/software collection... he very
kindly sent me a copy... I have no other information.
>
> I've only played with stuff in the 5.4R3 era. It's possible that "DG/UX
> 4.0" is a marketing designation for what would've been 5.4R4, a la the
> situation with SunOS 5.7 and Solaris 7.
>
> Another possibility is that the CD you have only contains support for
> IA32
> AViiON systems.

Again, this is a possibility. I have tried to read the CD using both
Windows and Mac machines and neither recognise any contents so I can't
glean any info from the CD itself. (I have written back to the guy who
sent it to try and find out a little more).
>
>> Would copying the CD to tape be a better option?
>
> No.

Didn't think so... ;0)
> ok
> bear
Received on Mon Apr 07 2003 - 19:19:00 BST

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