[comp.unix.aux] Need Help on A/UX 2.0 partitioning

lumpkin@nas.nasa.gov (Forrest E. Lumpkin) (10/24/90)

I am new to A/UX and have a question that is probably very
simple.

I am interested in installing A/UX 2.0 on my Mac IIfx on
a third party hard drive. The third party drive is a
Maxtor 200Meg internal drive (SDI LXT-200S) which I
bought from Alliance peripheral systems. The question I
have is other than the A/UX 2.0 software what do I need
to properly format/partition the drive. The software
that came with my drive does not mention support for
A/UX and a call to the tech support line confirms that
the partitioning software does not support A/UX. I had
heard that La Cie's SilverLining supports A/UX, but
a call to their toll free order number discovered that
SilverLining is presently being upgraded to support
A/UX 2.0 and won't be ready for a few months.

I am fairly knowledgable about the Mac OS as well as
using Unix however I know little about UNIX system 
administration; so, please don't leave out too many
mundane details on how to set up A/UX ( or
any pointers to where this information can be found
would be equally helpful.

Thanx in advance,

Forrest Lumpkin
NASA Ames Research Center
lumpkin@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov

alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) (10/27/90)

SilverLining _does_ currently support A/UX, although there are minor
glitches. (I don't remember the details- sorry...)

The only formatter I've used which does everything right is the MicroNet.
Unfortunately, they only sell it with their drives.

You could do the whole thing with dp but I don't recommend it. It's incredibly
messy. SilverLining is probably worth it for you.

BTW, I expect that Apple is going to make all this much easier with 2.0.1,
though that's not much good to you now...

---
Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix
{cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis

jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (11/03/90)

Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.uucp> writes:

	SilverLining _does_ currently support A/UX, although there are
	minor glitches. (I don't remember the details- sorry...)

Interesting.  I am running 2.0, and I used SilverLining without a
hitch.  I have several partitions, including two Mac partitions and 5
A/UX partitions, and have reconfigured once (that required *moving*
partitions, which SilverLining handled flawlessly, though I was white
with fear the whole time :-).

"I'm not a speculator, but I play one on the net"

/jordan