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foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 15 Dec 2002 : 19:20:25 As some of you may or may not know, I've been trying to get A/UX and get it running ever since I started posting here. I have been continually unsuccessful. I've downloaded from different sites and thrown the unloaded image on CD multiple times but it never loads. I am now giving up on leaving the computer on all night downloading it, and now am asking a simple favor. Send me a via mail that works! I'm beggin you.... Contact me via the e-mail foetoidthegreat@hotmail.com if you can help with the sending, but if you can tell me if I'm doing something wrong, please tell me what it is! Thanks ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 15 Dec 2002 : 21:42:45 hmmmm what machine are you installing it onto? did you make a boot DISK (ie floppy) image? describe your problem of trying to get A/UX working I was having problems with it on my Q650, and the thing that I needed to do was to download the 1.1 version of the '040 enabler, as opposed to the version 1.0 that comes with a/ux, a general rule of thumb is to make sure that you have the LATEST version of your hardware enablers installed. another thing that you generally cannot do with burned copies of A/UX is boot from CD, you MUST use the boot floppy in most cases. try downloading and burning from www.archaic-apples.com, that is where I got it and it worked admirably for me. anyway, describe your symptoms, and maybe they can be diagnosed CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 16 Dec 2002 : 05:54:12 I have the boot disk and it boots just fine, but it can never see the CD in the drive. I've tried installing on my 950 and on my 700. archaic-apples was the first place I tried it from and it didn't work for me, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
II2II Junior Member Canada 115 Posts	Posted - 16 Dec 2002 : 11:38:33 quote: I have the boot disk and it boots just fine, but it can never see the CD in the drive. Does it see a known working CD in that drive (ie. are the boot disk's CD drivers to blame)? Does the CD-ROM drive see the A/UX CD when you use the normal system software (ie. is the drive recognising the CD)? II2II Intelligence officer in training.
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 16 Dec 2002 : 11:56:20 Do you have the apple cd-rom driver on it? -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 16 Dec 2002 : 13:15:15 lol... I haven't checked that... I'll do that and we'll go from there. ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 17 Dec 2002 : 12:51:25 heh heh heh.... i just printed all 366 pages of the a/ux manual and i'll read that all the way thru eventually and maybe it can help... ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
kevinrist Starting Member USA 4 Posts	Posted - 23 Dec 2002 : 19:46:14 I haven't been able to install A/UX onto a Q950, using the original installation disks from the WGS 95 Upgrade Kit, and it's been frustrating the heck out of me; then, I read somewhere that it's sensitive to the CD-ROM drive you use, I'd been using an internal Apple drive I'd installed in the 950, but it was faster than the ones available when A/UX was developed; so, I think I was using a drive that was too new; it would boot the floppy, then get to a point and tell me that it couldn't find the CD-ROM. So, last night I tried installing A/UX on a Q610 (full '040) which had it's original CD-ROM, an Apple/Sony 600i, and it worked! So, now I'll try using that drive transferred into the Q950. So, I'm wondering, are you using a "vintage" CD-ROM drive, or a newer one? I had your original problem, and solved it by finding a drive that had been available when A/UX was developed. Hope that helps- -Kevin longtime lurker Edited by - kevinrist on 23 Dec 2002 19:47:59

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