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From: kateley@Apple.COM (Jim Kateley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX: help!
Summary: Let A/UX do the work for you
Keywords: Startup file, where is everything? In Autoconfig, thats where
Message-ID: <7795@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 28 Mar 88 02:30:22 GMT
References: <8462@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: kateley@apple.UUCP (Jim Kateley)
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8462@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>bought a 1 Meg memory upgrade kit, tired of waiting.  I booted UNIX on the
>Mac, for the first time, and the thing came up in SINGLE USER mode!  Huh?
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When shipped, A/UX comes up in single user mode.  I suppose this is 
because when you first configure it, you need to reboot and its faster
if you don't have to shutdown from multiuser mode first.  If you want
to always come up into multiuser mode, you can edit the second line of
your /etc/inittab file.

[Stuff here about not being able to telnet well, and asking about
an easy was to config the ethertalk board]

There's about two pages in the release notes on how to set up the
A/UX kernel for TCP/IP, NFS, and YP (Yellow Pages).  The main work
is editing the /etc/inittab file so all the daemons start when you
bring the system up.  If you look on page 3-3 of the A/UX Release Notes,
Version 1.0, you will find info on how to set that file up.  After that,
all you have to do is run /etc/newunix and /etc/autoconfig which will
rebuild your kernel for whatever networking you want.  On my machines, I
edited six lines in my /etc/inittab (I'm not typing them here because
it would take too much space) and then, in single user mode, issued
these commands:

/etc/newunix nfs
/etc/autoconfig -u -v -o /unix -S /etc/startup

(The above lines are on page 3-5 in the release notes)

My kernel was rebuilt, and I rebooted:

sync;sync;sync;reboot.

I now have TCP/IP and NFS up.  I've been able to remote mount
directories from my 80Meg A/UX box to my 40Meg A/UX box, and have
used NCSA Telnet 2.1e, and the CITI MacIP v1.6 drivers to log onto
both A/UX boxes from a MacOS MacII on my Ethernet.  Autoconfig makes it
easy to set this stuff up. Additionally, if you move cards from
one slot to another, Autoconfig will "see" it on boot up and
re-configure everything for you.  I set followups to comp.unix.aux,
so see you there!
>
>Caio.
>
>-- 
>*********************************************************************
>*Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755   *
>*********************************************************************


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