Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!claris!apple!phil
From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX: help!
Message-ID: <7803@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 00:47:13 GMT
References: <8462@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone)
Organization: Apple Computer A/UX Group
Lines: 39
Keywords: Startup file, ethernet, where is everything?

In article <8462@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>We have a Mac II here with A/UX on it, and an EtherTalk board installed,
>and Ethernet cable plugged right into it.  In short, the thing is ready to
>go, except for the famous SIMM shortage.  Today we finally broke down and
>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?
> ... Also that typing "init 2" would
>get me something that looked like multi-user mode, and I could run the
...
>when I try to do anything with it with UNIX running, I get the distinct
>impression that somebody's out to lunch.  Well, I guess we'll get the
>     a)  A shell script for bringing up the EtherTalk board.
>     b)  Instructions on getting this sucker to boot normally?

Well, Earl, your basic problem is that in 2MB of main memory, the system
is swapping itself to death. Normal, recommended main memory, for A/UX
OR SUN OS or IBM RT, whether SV or 4.3 is at least 4MB.

UNLESS you have a pre-release of A/UX, you do NOT need anything extra
to configure ethernet boards. You should have been prompted for the Internet
address, domaon name and broadcast address. Ifconfig and all other pieces
of software run automagically. We, and others not affiliated with Apple
ROUTINELY plug our little suckers in and they talk & work with SUNs, RTs
and so on.

may I inquire if someone has hacked some of the scripts in /etc and/or
if you have a prerelease (/etc/RELEASE_ID says other than 1.0)?

Also, in the SV world, init 2 gets you to multiuser mode. A SV user
can sit vainly typing init 2 on a 4.x BSD system instead of CTL-D when
in single-user mode and mutter the same (???) about the system being out to
lunch.

Hope this helps.
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