Re: Installing Xenix (again)

Great!

Everything seems to be working fine. Thanks

Phil

On Mar 9, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Guido Deiana wrote:

>
> From: Philip Lord <lord_philip_at_email.domain.hidden>
> To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden
> Sent: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:33:29 +0900
> Subject: Re: Installing Xenix (again)
>
>> Great that seemed to work. Thanks James. Just two more quick
>> questions.
>>
>> Firstly, I have A8 rom so mine is a Lisa 2/5, so I have formatted my
>> Xprofile drive as 5meg.
>
> Hi Philip,
> if you have an eprom programmer I can send you a .bin file with a
> patched
> I/O rom (now it show H/89).It has only the ID changed. When Xenix
> check for
> the rom version, any other ID than A9 is ok for to do not et errors
> during
> the 10 mb. initialization procedure.
>
>> Does anyone know what components of Xenix
>> will fit in 5meg. Obviously it all wont fit as I found out. Starts
>> giving me errors.
>
> All the 7 floppies areinstalled, the Dev system, Multiplan and
> Lyrix, but
> not very much space is left....
>
>> Secondly, after the install and re-boot, it prompts to push 'CONTROL
>> D' to continue with normal operation, there is no control button on
>> the lisa keyboard so I did 'apple D' instead (seemed to work).
>
> Option+Apple+D is Control+D
>
>> I then get a prompt for User login and password. Any idea what I
>> should type here?
>
> no initial password for root. After you can add/change it with
> "passwd".
> In maintenance mode, you can create new users with "mkuser". It's self
> explained.
>
> But remember.... Xenix i an Operating System, not and Application.
> It must be amministred knowing well his commands and problems :-)
> Just a note... never just power off. Always use "shutdown 0"
> or "sync", "Haltsys" .... You will avoid to have to reinstall it
> due inode
> errors...
>
> Ciao,
> Gido
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:57 AM, James MacPhail wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know the procedure for installing Xenix?
>>>
>>> I'm no *nix expert, but this has worked for me:
>>>
>>> - "startup from" Apple-2 (floppy)
>>> - "boot" prompt appears
>>> - just press <return>
>>> - display shows fd(2,0)xenix for a while, then screen goes black,
>>> then
>>> white again, then various loading messages including "no single-user
>>> login", "entering maintenance mode", eventually ending up at the
>>> prompt (#).
>>> - type hdinit <return>
>>> - it asks if you really want to wipe out your hard disk
>>> - type y <return>
>>> - it asks if disk is 5 or 10 MB
>>> - type 5 <return>
>>> or 10 <return>
>>> FYI, I believe you must use 10 on a Mac XL (2/10) and 5 on a Lisa
>>> 1/2. This
>>> is due to some parts of xenix assuming the disk size corresponds to
>>> the I/O
>>> Board ROM.
>>> - wait while drive is initialized
>>> - eventually says something like ##normal shutdown##
>>>
>>> - turn off and on, or press reset
>>> - at the "Startup from" menu, type Apple-3 (Apple-1 does not work
>>> for me)
>>> - "boot" prompt appears
>>> - type pf(0,0)xenix <return>
>>> - display goes black, displays loading messages, yada yada yada,
>>> eventually
>>> asks if you want to put /usr on a second ProFile
>>> - type n <return>
>>> (or y <return> if you have another ProFile connected to slot 1
>>> lower)
>>> - asks if you want to load the rest of the OS from floppy, then the
>>> development system, etc.
>>> - eventually you get to the # prompt where you can issue *nix
>>> commands,
>>> such as ls for a listing (like dir in DOS).
>>> - the next time you start up from the HD, you don't get asked
>>> about /usr
>>> and installing the extra stuff.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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