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Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 24 Mar 2002 : 22:11:11 Setup: Quadra 950 400MB HD 40MB RAM External SCSI HD, ID 3 (standard for internal CD's) This is crazy! But then, making floppies in OS X sucks. I make a boot floppy, but it won;t work... I can't boot off a CD... ARGH! ~Marchie, trying to prove he actually CAN mod this forum..
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 24 Mar 2002 : 22:12:45 Didn't Apple disable the floppy drive in X...I could've sworn... -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 24 Mar 2002 : 22:36:10 quote: I make a boot floppy, but it won;t work... Eeee. hrm. how doesn't it work - like not booting completely, or not working when it's booted n how? danadanadana
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 24 Mar 2002 : 23:27:02 Is your 950 supported? Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Macs Liberated:16 I love macs, macs love me, lets go blow up some PeeCee's. With a Power surge we'll fry their Circutry.
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 11:13:00 According to the compatibility list I posted in the Lounge, the 950 is supported by A/UX 3.0. You could also try installing it on one of your Mac II's (or did you sell them already?). Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 18:26:21 Yes, I think I'll have to NOT use OS X to make the disk.. it's screwing them up for use with older macs. USB floppy drives work fine in OS X thank you. :-) What it does: I put in disk@blinking Question Disk... Happy Mac is shown Floppy is ejected and it STAYS at the Happy Mac, dead. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 21:54:54 quote: What it does: I put in disk@blinking Question Disk... Happy Mac is shown Floppy is ejected and it STAYS at the Happy Mac, dead. Wow. Normally I'd have advice. That sounds plain weird... dana (tried another flopsky?)
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 15:52:38 Well, here'sw how it's going: After reviewing the A/UX FAQ, I found that amoung other things, the CD ROM drive I was useing isn't supported, so I now am useing an Apple CD300 external, which will work for installation at least. But the problem I'm having is it still won't boot off the floppy! I've made 2, and neither will be accepted. Is there a trick to making them? ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 17:40:37 quote: Well, here'sw how it's going: After reviewing the A/UX FAQ, I found that amoung other things, the CD ROM drive I was useing isn't supported, so I now am useing an Apple CD300 external, which will work for installation at least. But the problem I'm having is it still won't boot off the floppy! I've made 2, and neither will be accepted. Is there a trick to making them? I made mine on a 6300 with disk copy - no OSX floppy drive here to even try doing it that way... Although the way you said it was rejected is a little odd - with the happy mac appearing, then the floppy ejecting - sounds like the 950 could be acting a bit odd there... dana
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 18:30:39 quote: the way you said it was rejected is a little odd - with the happy mac appearing, then the floppy ejecting - sounds like the 950 could be acting a bit odd there... <wild guess mode> if you see a happy mac does that mean mac os floppy? if so, i don't see a system spec. could it be looking for an enabler it's not finding? </wild guess mode> technosaur; tryin' to learn new tricks! jt ™
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 19:37:01 quote: But the problem I'm having is it still won't boot off the floppy! I've made 2, and neither will be accepted. Is there a trick to making them? I'm pretty sure there's a dodgy copy of the A/UX installation floppy image floating around. I'd been banging my head against the wall for about a week with a similar problem... D/Led a fresh copy of the floppy ...and everything was.... boppy? The disk image I used that worked was obtained from the retromac68k.dyndns.org hotline server. Good luck! CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 20:32:53 quote: The disk image I used that worked was obtained from the retromac68k.dyndns.org hotline server. What does it take to get on that site? I've been trying for months, but I always get a "connection Failure" in IE 5. do you like green eggs and ham? Edited by - foetoid on 01 Apr 2002 20:35:00
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 20:43:37 quote: quote: The disk image I used that worked was obtained from the retromac68k.dyndns.org hotline server. What does it take to get on that site? I've been trying for months, but I always get a "connection Failure" in IE 5. Heh, well, for a start, its a hotline server, not a website, so you could start by going to versiontracker and D/L the hotline client. Cheers! CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 21:26:18 quote: well, for a start, its a hotline server, not a website, so you could start by going to versiontracker and D/L the hotline client. visiontracker as in... visiontracker.com, or is this something else? do you like green eggs and ham?
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 21:44:03 No, www.versiontracker.com, not visiontracker. I recommend searching for Frogblast if you have OS X. Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 21:48:46 quote: No, www.versiontracker.com, not visiontracker. I recommend searching for Frogblast if you have OS X. I don't have X yet. Can't justify the spending of 130 bucks for something that I have no real use for yet. I should have been able to read version tracker, seeing as i picked up "how to read for dummies," but I couldn't read it.... hmm.... something of a problem there. Anyway, what should I pickup for classic? do you like green eggs and ham?
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 21:53:51 quote: visiontracker as in... visiontracker.com, or is this something else? Sigh. Maybe we need an FAQ to cover stuff like this. www.versiontracker.com is many a mac user's first stop for the latest software releases and updates. A good site to bookmark. Cheers! CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 22:03:15 quote: Sigh. Maybe we need an FAQ to cover stuff like this. Sorry, I'm just new to this end of the buisness. Never worked with hotline, never worked with a UNIX based system. So I'm here just looking for help... do you like green eggs and ham?
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 22:31:11 quote: quote: Sigh. Maybe we need an FAQ to cover stuff like this. Sorry, I'm just new to this end of the buisness. Never worked with hotline, never worked with a UNIX based system. So I'm here just looking for help... do you like green eggs and ham? arrgh! I WILL NOT EAT THEM SAM I AM!!!!! :eek:!!! whatever! me too! after all this help, you'd better write this up for content for the site when you get finished! i wanna be able to load it on my 950 when it arrives and i'm gonna need a howto! dana-an-da-nixies™ will have used up all their newbie patience by then and i'm gonna be up the freakin' creek! as far as the hotline stuff goes, i think i'm a lost cause! actually it scares the crap outta me! jt ™
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 22:48:44 quote: as far as the hotline stuff goes, i think i'm a lost cause! actually it scares the crap outta me! Well, honestly, I thought Hotline died years and years and years ago. I figure that since things have evolved so much, it would have dissapeared. I've never used it, but it was on our 286 machine back in the '80s. do you like green eggs and ham?
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 07:01:55 Heck, and I always thought that Hotline was a 'modern' program. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 07:35:16 quote: Heck, and I always thought that Hotline was a 'modern' program. Actually it is. Fairly. It was originally created in 1996 by Adam Hinkley, a young dude from Melbourne. His trials and tribulations at the hands of unscrupulous north american lawyers make for interesting reading, and hopefully are a wake-up for anyone with a bright idea but a naive view of human nature. Cheers! CC Current score: 1 Apple //e 1 PB 520c 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 (recently resurrected!) 2 Powermac 6100s 1 Wallstreet
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 07:41:05 quote: His trials and tribulations at the hands of unscrupulous north american lawyers make for interesting reading, and hopefully are a wake-up for anyone with a bright idea but a naive view of human nature. we got some with scruples? thinks it sounds redundant sighs jt ™
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 07:48:30 quote: Well, honestly, I thought Hotline died years and years and years ago. I figure that since things have evolved so much, it would have dissapeared. I've never used it, but it was on our 286 machine back in the '80s. I guess that this program is a different 'Hotline' then... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 08:33:17 quote: quote: Well, honestly, I thought Hotline died years and years and years ago. I figure that since things have evolved so much, it would have dissapeared. I've never used it, but it was on our 286 machine back in the '80s. I guess that this program is a different 'Hotline' then... Some vague memories from the BBS days (back before I got started on the net in 1989...prolly just before, in 1988 or so) tell me that hotline was a dialup-bbs related thing for PC's. either the BBS software itself, or a terminal prog for using them. dana (feeling quite the dinosaur today)
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 08:38:19 quote: dana (feeling quite the dinosaur today) nah! not nearly old enough for that! they got fossil records of a big @$$ marsupial sabertooth tiger down dere? jt ™
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 09:26:40 quote: quote: dana (feeling quite the dinosaur today) nah! not nearly old enough for that! they got fossil records of a big @$$ marsupial sabertooth tiger down dere? Well now... that goes into another of my interests, being palaeontology... and yes :). we did. and a seven-foot-tall wombat type, a Diprotodon. I don't know if you guys have something similar in build, but a wombat is say, 2-3 feet long, a foot high or more, about the same width... and looks like a large, fat rat. Lookss kinda cuddly really, but they are the most insanely brick-solid-animal I've ever touched. You probably wouldn't find a tortoise any harder to feel - alllll bone n muscle. Thats part of the digging thing I guess :). Anyhows, they can cause enormous damage to semi-trailers if they're hit at speed on the road, and will almost certainly write off the underside of a car when hit - which happened to my sis's mother in law. Anyhows, with an idea of how solid they are, being that little... ...imagine one 7 feet tall and 12 long. whoa. a living bulldozer. I don't think it'd care much where it pointed itself, not like anything would stand in its way. So yeah. I'll bee a one of them. :D. dana (this thread started off with a question about a 950, and it's thread number 950. ooooah!)
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 09:33:23 quote: Well now... that goes into another of my interests, being palaeontology... and yes :). we did. and a seven-foot-tall wombat type, a Diprotodon. ...imagine one 7 feet tall and 12 long. whoa. a living bulldozer. I don't think it'd care much where it pointed itself, not like anything would stand in its way. So yeah. I'll bee a one of them. :D. imagine links to some of this cool stuff, silly maniac! sighs jt ™ back again: thanks ~coxy, the marsupial lion is way cool! Diprotodon is awesome! Edited by - trash80toG-4 on 03 Apr 2002 08:40:11
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 07:39:43 Here ya go! http://www.lostkingdoms.com/facts/factsheet48.htm http://www.expage.com/diprotodon http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/pdf/diprotodon.pdf http://www.evolutionnyc.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Product/asp/product-id/490105.html ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 10:01:42 I want a giant wombat for my backyard... I also want my Q950 to work w/ A/UX, but I haven;t had much time to work w/ it more. My new Newton is taking up lots of time :-) ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 18:22:53 The Newton is more powerful than the 950... sad but true. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 18:59:10 More powerful over the human (or rabbits) need to PLAY... maybe. But Ii'd like to see the Newton OS serve e-mail lists and have 20 people playing NetHack on it at the same time. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 21:28:48 Only because stuff was never really written for it, I'm sure. Is there a BSD/Linux port for Newtons? You never know... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 20:48:53 Well.... Now that I'm back home, I'm trying again. NEW SETUP: The CD ROM is an external Apple CD 300 New Floppy made from same image, but that image will boot the CD! But the Install window that pops up after startup, says ... " Open on '(4,0,6)/unix' failed Autorecovery failed. chrootr chroot failed installer# " so.. umm... what's going on? ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 20 May 2002 : 14:21:02 quote: so.. umm... what's going on? I don't think it likes you very much. _________________ HotLineServer: scchicago.dynodns.net Website: http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE AIM:scchicago87 Yahoo!IM:scchicago
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 20 May 2002 : 18:09:05 Can anyone post a copy of the A/UX image/installer on a HTTP server? I want to d/l A/UX... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
Mac_boy2 Starting Member 8 Posts	Posted - 29 May 2002 : 15:23:49 I have been having the exact same problem on a Quadra 800. I used th Man command on my MacOS X imac and found out that chroot has something to do with Root access. It is in real technical terms. Could someone please help by putting a cd image on http. Because the one I found on the ftp mentioned in one of the threads I think (or believe) is the problem. It also could be the HD???
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 29 May 2002 : 19:52:53 quote: Is there a BSD/Linux port for Newtons? I think ARM Linux might work on a 2000/2100 if you have enough RAM on it. Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane

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