peter@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Peter Steinauer) (10/08/90)
Ok - I have a question for all of you A/UX wizards out there. I'm currently a Mac user and am very familiar with Unix (as a matter of fact I'm on of the System Administrators for some of the machines here at CU) but I'm in the market for a new Mac (my Plus just doesn't cut it any more) and I'm considering a machine to run A/UX. My question is this: What do you guys think would be the minimum system I would need to run A/UX as well as the Macintosh applications I already have? In the A/UX Product specs it says that an 80Mb hard drive is necessary but will that be enough? Also, what about X? For our Unix machines here at CU it takes about 50Mb of disk space to compile the X releases and 30 Mb to run it. What about under A/UX ? What kind of disk space would I be looking at then? And when I'm running X under A/UX will it allow me to use X window managers (I'm sort of partial to TWM) or just run X clients? Thanks, Peter A. Steinauer University of Colorado Boulder peter@boulder.colorado.edu
jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (10/08/90)
Peter Steinauer <peter@boulder.Colorado.EDU> writes:
[ wants an A/UX mac on the cheap ]
Do it incrementally. It may cost you more in the long run, but you'll
have a functional machine sooner. Get a used MacII. You can get these
for at least $1k cheaper than any of the current models, and it's quite
adequate for A/UX. $2k. Buy Virtual with the PMMU, since that seems
the cheapest way to get one (unless the MacII you buy already has
one). It's about $170 mail order. Get more memory. If it has 1Mb,
throw it away and get 8Mb for about $325 ($39 x 8?). Get A/UX for
about $700, find a friend who has instaled before and get them to do it
for you instead of buying manuals. Buy her dinner. $30. Get a 105Mb
disk for about $600. Buy it as an external and buy your own case, put
it together yourself. Cheaper that way. Sell your Plus for about
$800, unless there's a hard disk too, in which case adjust
accordingly. $3k total.
I put all of the X11R4 distribution (binary -- you won't have room for
source) plus gcc, g++, and emacs in about 30Mb. 105Mb should be fine
for now. Maybe you'll have a 40Mb internal already from the MacII.
That can house your current Mac stuff. You can also cut down on the
number of fonts you have and the X clients you want to run. Get rid of
lots of stuff on the A/UX disk that you won't use -- yet.
Later, upgrade to an FX (since you have a II, not a cx or a ci), add
more disk, bring back manual pages, maybe even buy some manuals. Take
your time and your budget won't notice as much.
/jordanmarcelo@sparcwood.Princeton.EDU (Marcelo A. Gallardo) (10/09/90)
Hey everyone!
Got a slight problem here that maybe someone can help me with.
After spending lots of time trying to learn A/UX, I've become somewhat
knowledgeable (at least I can log in).
Now my problem is last night I tried to restart A/UX and during
bootup I was given the following...
autorecovery
/dev/default; skipped, file system state OK.
chroot
chdir
autolaunch
Open on 'newunix' failed
startup#
Obviously something is wrong (even I know that ;-))! Anyone have any
ideas on this one? Can someone give me a little help maybe.
Thanks in advance.
.. Marcelo ..
marcelo@phoenix.princeton.edu
marcelo@sparcwood.princeton.edu
marcelo@pucc.princeton.edu
marcelo@idunno.princeton.edu
Marcelo Gallardo
Test and Evaluation Specialist
Princeton University
Advanced Technologies and Applications
609 - 258 - 5661