• Updated 2023-07-12: Hello, Guest! Welcome back, and be sure to check out this follow-up post about our outage a week or so ago.

A/UX 3.0.1 running now - but no login screen? Help needed!

mattislind

Member
So I got A/UX running by fiddling a bit. Installed A/UX 3.0 and then 3.0.1. 

It is running but I cannot get it to give me the login screen when starting up. I get thrown into the finder environment directly so there is no choice to select another session type like X11 or so.

When I had 3.0 running I had to login but with 3.0.1 the login is no more. Is there a way to re-enable it? 

I have done a lot of different things which was in the manual and others like adding a root password at the csh prompt. Even added a second user - but how to get to it ? - there is no login screen...

The first comment on the speed of A/UX on a SE/30 is that it is painfully slow. But things works very well (except for login). Appletalk over EtherTalk lets me connect with my netatalk server. IP is configured nicely which allows me to both telnet and ftp into my main machine.

 

mattislind

Member
So. I solved this as well. A/UX is a new environment for me but I am used to quite a few variants of unix. There were a directory called mac in the root directory that caught my eye. 

NqJK6mQ.png.25e61dc02de155b3137b707d21f54a16.png


/mac/sys/Login System Folder/Preferences

There were a file called Autologin which I renamed. The contents was a single line root which I guess that it did a automatic login of root...

That changed then gave me this:

AmHQOW4.png.02a1156243e68d4ee5dc3abbc6ad566a.png


 

nglevin

Well-known member
The one computer that seemed to work well with A/UX 3 was a Quadra 700.

Specifically, a Quadra 700. The 800/650 logic board's on board VRAM for graphics doesn't seem to be recognized by A/UX.

Even then, A/UX will never be as fast as the original Mac OS at running Mac apps. The main draw to A/UX is the almost seamless integration of UNIX services and filesystems with HFS and System 7 apps. The few hybrid apps are also interesting to play around with.

 
Last edited by a moderator:

CC_333

Well-known member
It seems that many of its shortcomings are due primarily to Apple abandoning it prematurely.

If they had continued development for it, it very well could've evolved much as OS X has. Indeed, they are both based on very similar concepts, and share several important features in common (the most important and obvious ones being a Mac-like interface on a Unix kernel (OS X runs atop Mach, which is a Unix derivative) and seamless inter-operability of Mac OS and Unix/X11 applications (similar to Carbon and the Classic Environment).

That being said, I wonder if one can write new applications for A/UX?

c

 
Top