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From: alex@sapphire.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Xylogics AnnexII
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.231114.20109@sapphire.idbsu.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:11:14 GMT
References: <1949@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <8271@emcard.UUCP>
Organization: Boise State University
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In article <8271@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) writes:
>In article <1949@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (3787 x4108) writes:
>
>>good day.   i have just acquired an annexII IP terminal server. it downloads
>>the s/w from a host, not using tftp, but rather there own code called erpcd.
>
>>this server program is have a bit of trouble compiling on the hp822S i have.
>>anyone have any luck with this code or beast?
>
>>Lance R. Bailey  Systems Manager        box: Robarts Research Institute
>
>Are you sure about this?
>We've got Annexes, and I always thought they used rcp or something like that.
>I believe that the erpcd is an error logger daemon. I'm not sure, but I don't
>think it is required for booting the Annex.
>
>Mat
>
>ps - ours are Annex I's
>-- 
>W Mat Waites              |  Walking the wire is living,
>{gatech,emory}!emcard!mat |  the rest is just waiting. - Wallenda

The erpc daemon is the beast that downloads the boot image to the
Annex.  This is certainly the case on the Annex II, and I am almost
certain that it is the case on the original Annex as well.

We are running version 4.1 of the Annex software, and as I recall
I spent less than an hour compiling the software on our HP 9000/400t.
There was nothing big missing.  We are running HPUX 7.03

I could send you binaries, but I suggest you contact Xylogics.  Back
when we first got these Annexes, we booted them off a 3B2, and the
boot code required some hacking.  Encore (they were selling the Annex
then) sent me a special tape that worked fine.

	--alex

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