A/UX Upgrade path Help

[CelGen]

So I pulled out a spare Quadra 700 and am trying to get an install of A/UX going. So far in terms of hit and miss there's been a lot of misses.

I started by installing 3.0.1. I partitioned it correctly on a 1gb drive and made the mac partition extra large (128mb) for extra software and stuff. The install went smoothly and I did end up with a useable system but the tune-up packages are confusing me.

So officially they are known as Tune-up 1 (two disks) and Tune-up 2 (one disk). Tune-up 1 updates to 3.0.2. Tune-up 2 updates to 3.11 but requires 3.1 and recommends the "AWS Software Upgrade" in order to proceed if you do not have 3.1. I cannot find this, assuming it was some free update in between the tune-ups.

Anyways, even applying tune-up 1 caused everything to go sideways. The machine now boots but the moment A/UX kicks in the screen begins freaking out and the ADB stops responding. Eventually you're dumped to a text prompt because A/UX has given up fighting with the Toolbox for some reason and there's nothing I can do from there because with no ADB the keyboard is dead. Did I simply apply the patch incorrectly?

 

[rezwits]

give me a sec and I'll get back to you if someone doesn't

this details the order of updates, and there is an AWS that is corrupt also.

http://www.aux-penelope.com/aux_3.0.htm

I don't know without a quick lookup, which machines can only do 3.0.1 and no updates or something like that, i think at that site there is a chart too...

 

[CelGen]

The chart lists that the Quadra 700 is fully supported for 3 to 3.1.1. Also, I see now that 3.1 is not a direct upgrade but a completely different release. I do not have a copy on hand right now but I might know someone who does so I'll redo my install and hopefully I'll be able to patch up to 3.1 by tomorrow.

As a sanity check in the meantime I'm testing the ram in case something screwy is originating from there. The specs are not wild on this machine either in case that's causing a problem. 36mb ram and no accelerators or PDS/NuBus cards, plus the previously mentioned 1gb disk which got a good surface test before starting the install.

 

[CelGen]

System ran all night with every hardware and disk exerciser and test utility I had on hand. The machine if flawless. I even had a power interruption just before I woke up this morning and the Quadra was the only machine int the house that wasn't a laptop that didn't go down.

Anyways, PRAM cleared, A/UX was reinstalled starting with the 3.0.1 install media, then the tune-up to 3.0.2, then I used buddy's 3.1 upgrade disc and now I'm trying to apply the tune-up to 3.1.1. Having been so well behaved for the last 24 hours, now it finally starts to be a pain in the ass again.

-First try, insert floppy, system locks solid

*reboot*

-Second try, insert floppy, it mounts but the updater quits with error -2somethingsomething

*reboot*

-Third try, regenerate Tune-Up diskette, insert and it mounts, run the updater and the machine locks solid.

*reboot*

-Fourth try, regenerate diskette again using a disk image from another source*, insert and it mounts and it runs and the update is successfully applied.

The floppy drive is still being a massive pain in the ass and corrupting any disk you feed it unless the write protect is set so I might just have to swap it out and hope the problem goes with it. Otherwise I think I got it sorted out now.

*Both are from the Jagubox FTP, however the working disk image was in /Apple.fixes/supported/3.1/aws-tune.0/, the image that was causing me problems was in /Apple.fixes/supported/aws-tuneup-2.0/.

 

[IPalindromeI]

IIRC, wasn't that copy known to be corrupt?

 

[CelGen]

Nobody mentioned it, or at least removed it from the archive.

 

[rezwits]

Watch out for that floppy "SCRAPING"  I had a bad floppy drive in this G3 I just bought, and I threw the monitors cp, on a floppy, I went the G3 "scrape scrape" it read one time, and then the file was dead, and so was the disk, locked or not.  You might have had the files get read and corrupted when installed.  Just saying, but I had to buy a new floppy drive, just like we all have to, so we can install Speed Doubler 8.  HA!

 

[CelGen]

I test all my floppy drives with a test disk before I put anything I want to keep in them. That or I pull the drive and completely clean it. The drive was fine on the mechanical defect test.

 

[TylerEss]

The AWS 95 Update was a CDROM-based update, not one of the small floppy-based ones. It was well over 10 years ago now, but it ran fine on my SE/30. Is it hard to find now?