gt6337a@prism.gatech.EDU (Niel M. Bornstein) (05/24/91)
Has anyone successfully installed A/UX 2.0.1 on a Mac IIci from an NEC CD-ROM
drive? Every time I get to the part where it's supposed to start reading from
the CD, I get a Timeout: can't locate CD. I _know_ I've got the right SCSI ID
for the CD-ROM. I'm running Mac OS 6.0.5 with the NEC Driver (NECCDDrv) 2.10e.
My 80-Meg hard drive is partitioned for a standard A/UX system.
Do I need an Apple CD drive to install A/UX? The people I've talked to at
Apple are telling me nothing about CD drive compatibility.
Niel
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Scooter Technologies - We always follow our own internal gyroscopes.blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) (05/24/91)
gt6337a@prism.gatech.EDU (Niel M. Bornstein) writes: >Has anyone successfully installed A/UX 2.0.1 on a Mac IIci from an NEC CD-ROM >drive? I have yet to see a message on either AppleLink or Usenet indicating that someone has successfully installed A/UX from an NEC CD-ROM drive. I have seen messages indicating success with Toshiba and (of course) Apple CD-ROM drives. I have seen messages from people who claimed to have talked with NEC and have been told that the NEC CDR-35 isn't compatible with A/UX. I don't know about other NEC drives. --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) (05/24/91)
Warning: this is pure guesswork. I know nothing about CDROMs or what the A/UX stuff looks like on CD. But if you get no useful advice maybe you could try it. If (and I don't know if it's true) the CD ROM image contains a filesystem image you can copy that image from the CD to the A/UX partition on your hard drive. Use SCSI clone or some scsi copying utility or it might work from the A/UX startup program using dd and the right arguments or cpio (maybe you would have to use pname first). You would have to ensure that the partition on the hard drive was the same size (preferably) or larger than the CD partition if using the dd or cloning method. But the best method would be to boot A/UX and do it from there using cpio. You could do this by booting from a bootable floppy or connecting your drives to some other A/UX machine etc. You might be able to make a bootable floppy using A/UX startup and copying files off the CD. Or some person could make a bootable floppy and send it to you. I don't think it would be legal to do so, however. Anyway, I'm sure that it can be done. I just don't know enough about the CDROM to know if A/UX startup can read from it or what the A/UX files look like. If A/UX does not support the CDROM then you can still probably get A/UX onto your hard drive. Cheers, Tony sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz