Apple A/UX (Apple's old Unix Software)

[Red Phoenix]

Originally posted by theCaptain
If you can find some roms of a system that will run this OS, fire up a mac emulator such as Bassilik 2 and then install A/UX through this emulation. I believe their is a Bassilik 2 version for Unix so you can probablly recompile it to run A/UX is OS X.

Excellent idea. One can install Basilisk II with Fink, so I might just give this a try...

[nixgeek]

Tried it....used a Mac ROM I found online of a Quadra 650. Didn't work. I'm gonna try getting the ROM from my actual Quadra 650 and see if that works.

Of course, it will be installed on my Quadra 650. I just need to back everything up.

[nixgeek]

Ok, here's the rundown.

I installed it by first booting off of the floppy and then having the system access the installer on the CD-ROM drive. I selected the Easy Install and went ahead and loaded everything.

After being asked to reboot, the system acted a bit funky in that it booted, but then gave a message that the system had fixed all the inconsistencies and needed to reboot again with the fixed kernel. OK, then...I went ahead and rebooted again only to be greeted by the System 7 message saying that my system was too new and that System 7 wouldn't run on that system (Quadra 650).

After rebooting a few times, the geek in me decided to hit the programmer's button on the box and hit "G" to continue. Startup continued successfully and I was greeted with a desktop. I launched CommandShell and played a bit with my Linux expertise, but didn't get too far. Networking was a bust since I couldn't edit the Network Control Panel settings (I found out from AppleFritter.com that it's set to Read Only and that you have to change it with the "route" command). I tried to see about enabling "ae0," but it was nowhere to be found in the /dev directory. Weird thing is that I could see my AppleTalk share from the Win2K box I have up, but when I tried to access is it would crash the system.

After a bit, I got bored and decided this was a fun blast-to-the-past, but it was time to try something else....like NetBSD/68k. Still working on getting that installed...

AU/X was interesting to see, but not too functional for me at the time (I know I probably could have REALLY done a better job at getting it useful, but it's kind of hard when your 2-year-old wants to play with you....and he will always be my main priority... ) Maybe another time in the future...