Wanted: Amiga UNIX

[Tahoe]

Only the original C= version, looking for the boot tapes, disk and manuals. Prefer original, but will consider anything to get this machine running!

(have the A3000UX, A3070 drive, A2065 NIC and A2410 GFX card)

[Jeff]

I would start here,

http://amix.failsure.net/tiki-file_galleries.php

Sounds like a nice and rare machine! I hope you get it running. Would love to hear progress reports and see pictures.

Jeff

[Tahoe]

Thanx, I had already found that site!
Problem is; I need a running install of Amix to create the install tapes; which I don't have.
If I want to do an install by the book I need to install the HD hack version; create my tape(s) and format/reinstall using the tape

Would much prefer doing the tape thing straight away, apart from having a nice ringbound manual to complement such nice hardware

Will post pictures; both here and on my future website

[Minuous]

AMIX SDK unfortunately seems to still not be available though :-(

[AmireX]

Tahoe wrote:
Problem is; I need a running install of Amix to create the install tapes; which I don't have.
If I want to do an install by the book I need to install the HD hack version; create my tape(s) and format/reinstall using the tape

Would much prefer doing the tape thing straight away, apart from having a nice ringbound manual to complement such nice hardware

Hi, I have an A3000UX too, running Amix. I also used the A3070. I downloaded the Amix 2.01 and later the 2.10 tape files from failsure.net (or TOSEC dont know exact).  Then I copied the files via BTNTape 3.0 to the tape under Amiga OS 3.1 / 3.9 (BTNTape means "Better than nothing" Amiga DOS SCSI tape handler, Aminet:disk/bakup/BTNtape30.lha).

It is important to write the files in right order and with the right names. My script looks so:

echo "mounting tape .."
mount TAPE:

echo "copy amixlist .."
copy amixlist TAPE:

echo "copy unixcont .."
copy unixcont TAPE:END

echo "copy core .."
copy core TAPE:END

echo "copy bsd .."
copy bsd TAPE:END

echo "copy Cdev .."
copy Cdev TAPE:END

echo "copy lp .."
copy lp TAPE:END

echo "copy man .."
copy man TAPE:END

echo "copy net .."
copy net TAPE:END

echo "copy public .."
copy public TAPE:END

echo "copy sysadm .."
copy sysadm TAPE:END

echo "copy terminfo .."
copy terminfo TAPE:END

echo "copy text .."
copy text TAPE:END

echo "copy uucp .."
copy uucp TAPE:END

echo "copy Xcore .."
copy Xcore TAPE:END

echo "copy Xbasic .."
copy Xbasic TAPE:END

echo "copy olcore .."
copy olcore TAPE:END

echo "copy Xtras .."
copy Xtras TAPE:END

echo "copy Xdev .."
copy Xdev TAPE:END

echo "copy oldev .."
copy oldev TAPE:END

echo "copy conf .."
copy conf TAPE:END

echo "copy emacs .."
copy emacs TAPE:END

echo "copy games .."
copy games TAPE:END

echo "copy amigasrc .."
copy amigasrc TAPE:END

echo "copy emacsrc .."
copy emacsrc TAPE:END

echo "copy gnusrc .."
copy gnusrc TAPE:END

echo "copy gnusrc2 .."
copy gnusrc2 TAPE:END

echo "copy pubsrc .."
copy pubsrc TAPE:END

echo "copy Xsource .."
copy Xsource TAPE:END

echo "copy X11r5src .."
copy X11r5src TAPE:END

Before running the script you have to start BTNtape (see  manual how to do this). Another way to create the tape is BRU (BackupRestoreUtility). It's only running under OS 3.1 and the GUI is named HDBackup I think. I have done this and it worked but dont remember the details. The problem was that you can't tell BRU (HDBackup) the order of the files to write to the tape. So I started HDBackup again and again and only wrote ONE file to the tape. The other method is more flexible.

Oh, I forgot. Sometimes the BTNtape method was REALLY slow. I think it depends on tape write buffer settings. You can change these settings via BTNTape, but it is hard to understand (I didn't :-?). My "solution" was to start first diavolo backup and initialize the tape. Then closed it and started BTNtape and then the script and the tranfer rate was much better.

Good luck, ReX :-)