Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!csn!ccncsu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!samsung!emory!mnopltd!neal From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: vpix and the a: drive... Message-ID: <205@mnopltd.UUCP> Date: 24 Apr 91 04:49:01 GMT Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga. Lines: 58 ->has anyone out there successfully installed vpix on a xenix (or unix) ->machine? I have installed sco vpix 1.2 on xenix 2.3.3 386 and ->cannot seem to get it to access either the first floppy drive (so I ->can't install any software) or the first (primary) dos partition on ->the second physical harddisk. under xenix, the floppy works as ->/dev/rfd096ds15; a standard 1.2 M 5 1/4. the second hard drive ->is /dev/rdsk/1s0. I've tried everything but the correct answer in ->vpix.cnf, but even when a: is set to rfd096ds15, which works in ->xenix, vpix doesn't even TRY to access the drive before a drive ->not ready error. -> ->Has anyone got this to work? Yuppers. I seem to remember some mumbo jumbo about sometimes having to open and shut the door the very first time. This is what I have C $HOME/vpix/C: ROM /usr/vpix/defaults/rom CMOS /usr/vpix/defaults/cmos BOOTIMAGE $HOME/vpix/vpix.img EGAROM /usr/vpix/defaults/romega ;EGAROM /usr/vpix/defaults/romvga ;A /dev/rfd048 A /dev/rfd096ds9 ;A /dev/rfd096ds15 ;A /dev/rfd0135ds18 ;B /dev/rfd148 ;B /dev/rfd196ds9 ;B /dev/rfd196 ;B /dev/rfd1135ds18 ;B $HOME/vpix/B: ;D /dev/hd00 D /dev/hd10 COM1 /dev/tty1a ;MOUSE /dev/mouse/vpix0 ;MOUSE /dev/mouse/vpixkb -> ->thanks in advance! ->jeffs ->-- ->Jeff Smith | #include ->Brock Control Systems | uucp: ...!gatech!emory!bcs800!jeffs -> | internet: jeffs%bcs800.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu ->tel: +404 431 1200 | -All my life I said I wanted to be someone... -> | -now I can see I should have been more specific. -> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neal Rhodes MNOP Ltd (404)- 972-5430 President Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247 Fax: 978-4741 emory!mnopltd!neal gatech!emory!mnopltd!neal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------