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From: schnable@cbnewsc.att.com (andrew.schnable)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: AUX on non Apple disk drive? (yes - and AUX2.0 is shipping...)
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.170317.2217@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 4 Jul 90 17:03:17 GMT
References: <11464@netcom.UUCP>
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From article <11464@netcom.UUCP>, by sjs@netcom.UUCP (Stephen Schow):
> Is AU-X available on CD yet?  Will it be?  How long?  How much?

The answer is yes - I received my copy on CD last friday. 

And to answer the question in the Subject line - yes it can be made
to work on non-apple disk drives.  First - order Silverlining from LaCie
(be sure and tell them you want to use it to format a disk for AUX2.0).

I used Silverling to partition my Quantum 170 Mb drive. I selected
the "MAXIMUX AUX" option which gives you a small Macintosh partition,
the "standard" AUX partitions, and a large free AUX partition. 
I discovered that I had to grow the Mac partition from the default 
size that Silverlining chose to get all the AUX boot-strapping files 
installed. I then basically followed the installation instructions that came 
with AUX2.0.  

I was able to get AUX up and running, but, my large free AUX slice was
not mounted. I figured that I probably had to make a filesystem and
mount it myself. Here I ran into a problem - the instructions in
the AUX documentation lead me to believe that this slice should
be available under /dev/dsk/c6d0s3 (or something like that -
I am not sitting at the machine right now...) But, there were no
such nodes in the filesystem! To make a long story short, I had to 
make the nodes by hand (using mknod), in both /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk. 
I was then able run newfs to create the file system and mount to mount it.

Does anybody know what the c6d0s30 and c6d0c31 devices are for?
It looks like c6d0s31 is the entire disk....

I also am begining to realize I probably should have ordered the
administrative documentation.  Simple things like getting my HP
deskwriter driver installed are not documented in the basic documentation -
they tell you how to install apple printers, but then tell you
to look in the admin guides for instructions on setting up
"other" printers. 

And here's a big YUCK - Apple isn't providing honeydanber UUCP - its
a some really old old version. My only previous experience has 
been administrating HDB UUCP.  I need to check if ksh88 is being provided
or if it too is an obsolete version. And awk for that matter.
Does anyone know if ksh and awk are the new versions or the old?

a.schnable@att.com