A/UX Installation Issues

[mushinator]

Hi Everyone,

I've recently, (about two years ago, but thats recent in terms of the life span of A/UX) started to build an A/UX machine on my IIci. I've been collecting hardware for a while now, and I have a IIci, with a cache card, an external CD (AppleCD 600i (Panasonic/Matsushita CR-504-C)), and nubus ethernet and video.

So, I have the media, I've burnt the CD and created the floppy (Now that was a mission, finding a machine with a floppy drive that wasn't the mac to make the floppy with wasn't fun!), so once I got the mac booting with the MacII AUX boot disk, it tells me that A/UX can't find the installation media. So I thought, I'd better check which 600i I had, and its definately the CR-504-C version, which people online say is supported.

I've rebooted a number times, I've changed the scsi cables, and tried with and without the terminator, and all give me the same error.

Any thoughts, tips or constructive suggestions welcome!

Thanks for the ideas.

P.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Try installing the Apple CD-ROM driver onto the floppy as instructed here:

viewtopic.php?p=79813#p79813

 

[Unknown_K]

The boot floppy (for wgs95 A/UX 3.01 anyway) should work with most scsi cdrom drives I think, don't think the install even cares if the HD you install to is Apple ROM or not either.

 

[mushinator]

Thanks for the tips guys, I've tracked the problem down to the CD drive and system 6.0.whatever not finding the CD drive.

I know that the CD drive is good, it works great when a system 7 boot disk is put in (or booted of a harddrive with System 7 on it)...

I'm having real trouble getting the CD to work on system 6, I've played with the MacII boot disk, and tried adding the recommended driver and the desktop manager, but I still cant see the disk on the desktop and when I manually run the A/UX installer it still can't find the CD, which isn't surprising becauase the OS cant either!

Does anyone have a plain old system 6 disk that has the CD working that i can "borrow"? please? or am I just missing the point somewhere!!??

Thanks again!

P.

 

[scott]

Try this one... It seems to work with pretty much anything.

http://www.aux-penelope.com/files/AUX_3.1_Boot.img.gz

 

[mushinator]

Hi,

Thanks, that disk doesn't see the CD drive either! I'll have a play and see if I can make a disk manually with the bits needed to at least boot MacOS and have the CD working, from there, its a case of getting the A/UX bits onto it.

What does "CD-ROM hack" do? is it a driver for CD rom drives?

P.

 

[mushinator]

Hi Everyone,

I got it cracked, it was "CD-ROM hack" which was stopping the installation working. I removed that from the AUX Boot disk, and added the system 7 cd drivers, and bingo, AUX installed without an issue from end to end.

Now I have to say, A/UX 3 is how System 7 should have been in the first place!

Thanks for your help, I'm sure I'll have another question or two soon!

P.