A3000UX up and running AMIX again!

[Failure]

Well, I am the guy who wound up with the A3000UX that was up for grabs here not too long ago.  I received it from an aquaintance in the Chicago area only today, and I didn't waste any time getting it back up and running :-)

It is running Amiga Unix 1.1 right now.  I did not know the root password, which presented a problem: I do not have my other 3000 yet, so I can't make the AMIX install disks...I tried mounting the filesystem on a Solaris box at work, but didn't have any luck.  So I brought the machine home, recompiled the Linux kernel on a spare box with UFS/SysV FS support and various partitions support...no luck there, either.  So I just dd'd the whole drive into a file, and ran "strings amix.img | grep root > rootgrep" on it.  Then I searched through the file with vi until I found this little gem:

root:vbe9NP8WVbix6:9937::::::

Muahaha.  Ran john-the-ripper on it:
failure@shodan:~/john-1.6/run$ ./john passwd
Loaded 1 password (Standard DES [48/64 4K])
guesses: 0  time: 0:00:00:05 (3)  c/s: 20667  trying: barrin - meo1
guesses: 0  time: 0:00:00:16 (3)  c/s: 18386  trying: pumel - coodog
guesses: 0  time: 0:00:00:47 (3)  c/s: 58066  trying: pactie! - ar24958
wasp             (root)
guesses: 1  time: 0:00:01:23 (3)  c/s: 81622  trying: wikl - wnc7

Yay!  So I put the drive back into the system, booted it up, and here is the first login on this system in a long time:

http://failsure.net/~failure/img/dscf0156.jpg

Check out that uptime!  ;-)  Amiga: stable like a rock!  And for kicks, here is a pic of the current setup:

http://failsure.net/~failure/img/dscf0157.jpg

Off to play some more now.  Can't wait for the A2065 to show up so I can get this thing on the internet.

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Failure

[adolescent]

Looks like fun.  Dead battery?  Any data on the drive to show where it was used?

[graffias79]

Oh! my baby! She loves you hehehe!

I'm glad to see you cracked into it!!

-Jamie

[amigarulez]

Cool, respect:)

[Failure]

Yeah, the battery is actually missing.  Jamie conscientiously removed the leaky battery, so when the system is powered on it thinks it's the tail end of 1977.  I can't decide right now whether to replace the battery or just hook the system to the UPS and leave it on all the time.

Jamie thinks the system may have come from a power company Commonwealth Edison.  Wherever it came from, it was obviously put to work.  The hosts file lists things like "Joliet Data Center Vax" and "IBM Mainframe".  There are no less than 13 systems identified as Amigas with IP addresses in the host file.  The last time the system was used was January 3, 1998, and it was shut down at precisely 2:00 PM, likely until Jamie got it and powered it up.

I started X and put an xterm and stuff up, but lacking a mouse at the moment couldn't do anything else.  The display is black and white.

The machine has both cc and gcc compilers, and some Amiga specific binaries I didn't get a chance to play with in /usr/amiga/bin.  gcc is 1.37.  One of the two users had an AmigaOS startup file in his home directory, the other user only had a core dump.

*edit* the system had a NIC in it when it was at work, the system still looks for it at boot time and complains since it isn't there...

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Failure

[angrybrit]

congrats!!!

I want one of those Amiga 3000UX. :cry:

[Matt_H]

I think Commodore used to sell 3000UX packages with a 2065 and 2410 graphics board. I see you've already got a 2065 on the way, but if you could get a 2410, you'd probably have a killer AMIX rig. I've never seen one for sale, though. Ever. :-(

[Crusher]

That´s really cool man. I hope you can get your hands on all the things that an A3000UX was delivered with.  :-)

[iamaboringperson]

angrybrit wrote:
congrats!!!

I want one of those Amiga 3000UX. :cry:

As do I.

One of the classiest Amiga's ever.

[adolescent]

The A2410, A2065, A2232 and A3070 were all options.  I had the option of getting a UX when I bought my A3000.  IIRC, the only difference was the Unix installed on the HD and about $100.

[Orjan]

Well, at least the tape drive ( A3070 ) has to be standard, since tha Amix OS was delivered on tape...

[gregthecanuck]

FYI my 3000UX was delivered with an A2065 and A3070.

I can't remember for sure but I think both were mandatory in Canada...

[MrZammler]

Very very very cool!

[Lodbro]

that's cool

[graffias79]

Hi

Great that you found all that back information.  I bet among a few of those 13 Amigas, three were of the A2500s I have in the garage still.  I cannot find Amix on their HDDs however, they all have KS/WB 2.04.

Joliet is a suburb of Chicago so that part of it makes sense.

As for the A2065 NIC.. hmm  :-P sorry I needed one for my A3000T but from what I understand they are not too difficult to obtain.  I'm not sure of the graphics card, I didn't see anything like that in any of the Amigas, except one of the A2500s had a Microway Flickerfixer AGA or whatever they are called cards in the video slot.  My 3000T already has flickerfixing (Thank you C= !) and a Picasso II.