cutting@bopp.PARC.xerox.com (Doug Cutting) (11/10/89)
In article <TIM.89Nov7212545@hume.eusip.ed.ac.uk> tim@eusip.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
The 1186es in use here used to have a (modified?) version of the Lisp
Installation Utility on the 0 partition of the disk, which could be
used to copy Sysouts &c. I recently had to reformat my machine's
disk, and I decided to install the SystemTool accoring to the 1186
User's Guide.
The SystemTool _appears_ to work properly: I can fetch a Sysout from
the net onto the Lisp2 partition, and then copy it onto Lisp.
However, if I try to boot the Lisp partition, the cursor code sits on
199 indefinitely, which I think is `reading microcode'. There is a
Lisp microcode file on the volume. If I floppy boot the machine, and
then copy and expand the sysout `by hand' with the Installer, it works
fine. But I would much rather use the SystemTool, especially since I
can't work out how to get the Installer onto the hard disk!
As I recall the SystemTool assumes that your microcode is on the
volume named LispFiles, but the standard EUISP partitioning does not
include a volume by this name, breaking the SystemTool. If I'm
correct, you either need to repartition your disk so that it has a
volume named LispFiles, or you have to find the Installer boot file.
I think it may have been delivered with the Koto 1.0 release in the UK
because the SystemTool didn't yet work on 1186s.
All of the above may be wrong. It's been a while.
Doug