Setting up my IIfx has been very circular...

[Rockin' Kat]

...any more circles, and I think I'm going to flip out.

SoI have a IIfx, with a radius video card, 128MB of RAM, a 4.xxGB, a 300e CD rom drive and a black terminator outside, and what I guess is some kind of filter on the SCSI cable inside... and two new PRAM batteries from Radio Shack.

I've got a set of install disks for OS 7.6. I've also got a non-bootable install CD for OS 7.5.3... and I have a floppy with a patched copy of Drive Setup 1.5 which is patched for third-party drives...... I've also got OS 6.08 install disks, and 7.1 install disks.... but those two are too old to use drive setup.

the 7.6 disks boot up to an installer and will not let me load the patched drive setup.

Someone on the vintage Macs list at LEM gave me a link to a page full of links to bootable disk images.... but from that page everything that strikes me as possibly being what I need seems to result in one of three outcomes:

1)Disk boots, but the computer hangs when I try to open the patched Drive Setup 1.5 (this happened with OS 7.1.2 disks that actually booted)

2)Disk fails to boot and either ejects, or brings up the chimes of death with a dead Mac and some inane error message.

3)The download link is broken because either files are deleted, server is gone, ftp access is denied, or the server gives a weird error for all directories with no real explanation.

:?:

I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. What am I doing... I don't know what I'm doing.

 

[porter]

SoI have a IIfx

A/UX 3.0.1!!!!!!!!!

 

[porter]

Don't use Drive Setup.

Use patched "Apple HD SC Setup".

 

[Rockin' Kat]

Someone ended up pointing out the Network Access Disk 7.5. And it was able to boot the IIfx and run the patched Drive Setup 1.5, so I now have two 2GB partitions.

http://igsi.tripod.com/mac/index753.htm

 

[Rockin' Kat]

SoI have a IIfx

A/UX 3.0.1!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to risk sounding ignorant here...

...Whats that?

 

[Unknown_K]

Apples UNIX pre OSX, should be ok on a IIfx but best on an AWS 95 or Quadra 950.

I find OS 7.1 on be best on a stock IIfx, 7.6.1 maybe on a loaded one.

Sounds like you spent a few bucks on that system, might be a good idea to get legit OS cds on LEM swap, and maybe some apps.

 

[mac2geezer]

If you can get 7.6 loaded you can download the 7.6.1 update from System7Today

http://main.system7today.com

Lots of System 7 goodies on that site along with some very useful information.

 

[porter]

Apples UNIX pre OSX, should be ok on a IIfx but best on an AWS 95 or Quadra 950.
I find OS 7.1 on be best on a stock IIfx, 7.6.1 maybe on a loaded one.

A/UX is the only operating system that actually uses all the extra hardware such as IOPs etc that went into the IIfx. Mac OS basically treats the IIfx as any other in the non-32bit clean II family.

 

[z180]

A/UX is a very special Unix system.

Mixed from Uniplus,BSD System V,and SunOS.

It even supports different file systems like NFS via the sun vfs.

It has the system V FS ,STREAMS and supports TCP/IP and select()

and BSD signals.

It contains mixup code so that programs can use the GUI routines in the ROM.

The only release where I have kernel source code runs only on

the original Mac II and does not support all the hardware and periphals.

 

[porter]

The only release where I have kernel source code runs only onthe original Mac II and does not support all the hardware and periphals.

From Apples Technote HW 540...

Currently A/UX is only OS to use Macintosh IIfx SCSI DMA chipDate Written: 8/15/91

Last reviewed: 8/15/91

Does System 6.0.7 or 7.0 make use of the DMA portion of the Macintosh IIfx hardware?

System 7.0, or any version of the Macintosh operating system at this point, does not utilize the SCSI DMA chip in the Macintosh IIfx. A/UX is the only operating system on the Macintosh that does use this chip.