Exciting but cryptic announcement for AMIX enthusiasts

[Dalamar]

YEY!  Trying to Download now.  Seems to be a problem with the download.

[Dalamar]

I did manage to get the PDF AMIX Manuals off of mmhart if anyone ever needs them just in case the site doesn't come back up.

I'm working on compiling Apache on 2.1 so I'm hopeful that I will have a full time AMIX web server running Soon(tm).  

Oh boy!  My A3000 running UNIX, and my A4000 running OS3.9.  I'm in Classic heaven.

[Dalamar]

@Minuous

Have you tried the Amiga Technical Reference book series?  I remember digging through there and finding out way more than I wanted to know about the Amiga.  Just a thought.

[Dalamar]

@Failsure

Can you add a section for the UNIX manuals that MMHART scanned?  I will upload the one incomplete archive I have.  It's better than nothing.  I also have the marketing brochure for the 3000UX scanned.

[Dalamar]

I have tried to make the tape with my 3070 already.  It writes out OK (after I have renamed all the 01,02,03 files to the files in seglist) but when I use the boot floppies I get read error on the tape before it even loads in the first package.  I'm trying again with the bs=32k statement removed from dtdist.sh.  I will make two tapes just to be sure.  I blew up the AMIX install when I tried this so I've had to reinstall a bare bones version to try again.

Wish me luck on attempt two.

[Dalamar]

Since I can say I'm not very savy when it comes to tapes how does one zero out a tape?  I tried mt erase, but that's not supported.

Also, where did you locate a cleaning tape?

[Dalamar]

Thanks odin.  It's been a lot of fun I must admit.  All of this Amiga stuff running around here.  :-)  Getting Amix 2.1 up and running has been an obsession of mine for over two years now.

[Dalamar]

OK>  I'll try the above if this run doesn't work.  At this point I'm running the tape that I created without the 32k and it's had no read errors.  It's not done installing but at least it actually started this time.  

/me crosses fingers....

[Dalamar]

Well, the install failed.  I didn't modify the tape create script with the 150MB mode (I didn't see that post until the install was running) but here is what happened:

I created the tape
Installed off of floppies
The tape kicked in and ran but every package following core fails with unexpected-end-of-archive....  

I've tried running amixpkg from the working core install to get the net package, and I get the same result.  None of the packages are installing after core.    How annoying.  Is it possible that the packages are out of order somehow on the tape?  This is a bit over my head now.  I've never had luck with tapes.

Is there any way to install the net package so I can at least use this install to make more tapes?

[Dalamar]

Must... not.... install....... AGAIN>>>!>!>!>!>  AAAAAAAAA!!!!

I'm going to do the hack install again to make different kinds of tapes this time.  I will make this work if it's the last thing I do.

[Dalamar]

dd if=$name of=/dev/rmt/4hn bs=32k in dtdist.sh...

Works!  I'm three packages into the tape install and going strong.  By tomorrow I should know if it is fully working.  

[Dalamar]

YEY!

UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0

login: root
Password:
UNIX System V Release 4.0 AT&T Amiga (Unlimited)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
All Rights Reserved
Last login: Tue Jan 20 10:45:24 on console
        System V Release 4.0            Amiga Version 2.1p2a
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[Dalamar]

During the compile of the kernel on the patch disk there were many warnings, but I didn't get a failure.  I'm working on Apache next.

[Dalamar]

@odin

I put the image of someone elses tape back on a tape here.  That image was obtained by Failsure.  

@failsure
Where did you get the source for NTP?  I'd like to compile that next.  Web is up an running but there is nothing there yet.

[Dalamar]

OK.  Downloaded it and ran configure:
configure: error: sources are in ., but `cd .' does not work
Ever seen that b4?  cd . dess work....  Hmmm...