by Robert D. Key » Fri, 25 Sep 1998 04:00:00
Any insights or pointers appreciated.
Thanks
Bob Keys
by Christos Zoul » Fri, 25 Sep 1998 04:00:00
you could still patch a current kernel with the old mca patches and tryQuote:>I was wondering if anyone ever got a PS/2 machine up and running with
>NetBSD? I noticed the PS/2 disks from the uk archives, and just tried
>that. Alas, they seemed to crash with bus errors on my MCA machine.
>It did come up sufficiently to recognize the hardware and boot OK,
>and then ask for the second disk (NetBSD-1.2) and then it crashed.
>It would be fun to see something BSDish rather than AIX on my box,
>if possible.
>Any insights or pointers appreciated.
christos
by Robert D. Key » Fri, 25 Sep 1998 04:00:00
Thanks....
Bob
by Robert D. Key » Thu, 01 Oct 1998 04:00:00
I have tried everything there...... no go on any of my 6 differentQuote:> http://glycerine.cetmm.uni.edu
> http://www.dgmicro.com
The Debian boot came the closest, and got as far as partitioning disks.
But Debian 1.2 or 1.3 does not seem to exist anywhere on the net that
I can find, and the mca boot disks won't install the 2.0.... I tried.
The 2.0 itself won't install, just in case the old mca code was compiled
into it.
All of the slackware stuff did not even begin to install on my machines.
It could barely get as far as looking for esdi drives. Such is the
bane and pain of Model 80's (damn good machines, but sadly strange).
So, where is the Debian 1.3 tree these days? I will be happy to try
it, if I can find the 1.3 distribution. Alas, it seems to have gone
vaporware on the net, for reasons that I don't quite understand.
If not, I am loosely working on a NetBSD port with one of the folks
who got it going on a model 70 one time. I suspect that it will
work well, in time on my boxes.
Bob
1. Anyone ever get an MCA PS/2 Model 80 up running Linux?
I am curious if anyone actually has a working distribution of Linux that
DOES install completely on an IBM PS/2 Model 80 with ESDI or SCSI disks?
I have tried everything in the MCA archives that I could find to bring up.
Alas, the Debian-1.3 suite came closest to actually working (it got as
far as partitioning and asking for the base disks, which may indicate
that it could finish coming up). Alas, again, I could not find any
archive sites with the Debian 1.3 suite still on-line, only 2.0.
The Slackware stuff only got into the install root system, and there
are no Slackware 3.0.0 archives on-line anymore, that I could find.
I would like to come up with something that might install via floppy,
ftp, or tape --- cdrom is not available for these older machines, unless
a netboot of some kind from another unix or windoz box might be done.
1. Anyone got a pointer to a WORKING installation suite of ANY Linux
for a PS/2 Model 80 ESDI based machine? (or for that matter a PS/2
Model 80 SCSI based machine, since I run both?)
2. Anyone got a pointer to any archives with Debian-1.3 still on-line?
That may have the most potential, since it got the farthest on my
particular hardware.
3. Anyone still USING a PS/2 Model 80 Linux box, who might generate some
boot floppy images? Yeah, I know, it is a dinosaur, but it is a very
rugged box.
Thanks...... someday it will work.....
Bob Keys
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