psiders@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Paul Siders) (03/26/90)
Thanks to all who offered help for my problem installing VRM 2.2.1 .
I tried responding to several of you individually, but I don't know if
my mail reached you.
[ chris@hudson.cs.columbia.edu ]
[ njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) ]
[ John Garnett <garnett%a.cs.okstate.edu@RELAY.CS.NET> ]
[ moody@moody..austin.ibm.com ]
I used James Moody's instructions, as follows (THANKS!):
Boot the machine. Hit ctl-alt-numpad4 (only works if you have
some display connected to the RT that is not the megapel).
You are now in the VRM debugger. At the prompt, do the following:
>al F0008828 F0 [enter]
>g [enter]
You should be back in AIX now. Shutdown and reboot from diskette.
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Now that I have AIX 2.2.1 installed, I am having trouble reaching the
network. I have an ethernet connection to a local (U of Minn - Duluth)
network. My RT's internet address is 131.212.32.10 . I can telnet and ftp
out to the local network, but not to off-campus sites (e.g., not to
128.101.16.3 sc.msc.umn.edu ). I do receive mail on the RT from campus
machines, but apparently not from off-campus machines. (The mail address
I've given below is on another campus computer.) I cannot telnet
into the RT ("rtchem.d.umn.edu") from even the campus network. I can't
start telnetd - error message is below. I have an old (1986) tcp/ip manual,
but didn't find much helpful in it. I have asked my local IBM office to
order a new tcpip manual for me, but that's likely to take a few months.
I would appreciate suggestions.
Below are three commands that ran when I had AIX 2.2 installed, but
now fail. I am using the old /etc/hosts file.
I enter:/usr/lpp/tcpip/etc/telnetd &
response:/usr/lpp/tcpip/etc/telnetd: getpeername: No such device
I enter:route add 128.0.0.0 ags 1
response:add net 128.0.0.0: gateway : Network is unreachable
I enter:telnet (or telnet -e vt100) (Of course, it was "tn" in AIX2.2)
response:Can't emulate a 3270 terminal on a vt100 terminal
response: telnet>
Then the terminal stops echoing characters and the rt stops responding to
things I type, except that ^c does get me a new prompt. Note: I have set
EMULATE=vt100 .
Ideas? What does the "getpeername" message refer to? I have tried what
I found in chapters 7 and 8 of the "Managing the AIX Op Sys" manual. I also
looked around in /usr/lpp/tcpip/samples and tried customizing named.boot there:
( domain 10.32.212.131 ) but I didn't know what I was doing with named.boot,
and the resulting named.rev and named.data files don't look good:
setting default domain to ... "." .
Thanks for your help.
Paul Siders
psiders@ub.d.umn.edu (131.212.32.6) (@rtchem.d.umn.edu SOMEday, I hope!)
or psiders@UMNDUL (BITNET)
Chemistry Department, Univ of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812