Re: Another good A/UX resource.

Gary Danko Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:29:25 -0800

From the FAQ

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G.02)  What's the minimum system I need (CPU, disk and RAM) to run A/UX?
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A/UX 3.0 works on the MacII (with PMMU _or_ 68030 upgrade with FDHD ROM's installed), IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, SE/30, IIsi (with 68882 chip) and the Quadra 700|900|950 computers. A/UX 3.0.1 (and later) adds support for the Q800 and Centris Machines (the Centrises _must_ have the real 68040 w/FPU - See Q&A #G.03). A/UX will run on the Quadra 610 and 650s (recall that A/UX requires the _real_ 68040 chip!) with a little bit of work:

You should make a copy of the A/UX Install Boot floppy and then copy the Enabler for the Q610|650 onto this copy. You then boot up from this floppy and install A/UX as usual. Finally, you'll need to copy the Q610|650 Enabler onto the A/UX MacPartition (or whatever MacOS disk you will use when starting up your Mac and booting A/UX); do this by first booting off a boot floppy or boot CD and then copy the Enabler over. You do _not_ need to make any changes to the A/UX System Folder (i.e. the System Folder used under A/UX).

A/UX will NOT run on the PowerMacs, any AV machines, any PowerBooks (or portables), the LCs, the Duos, the ClassicII, the Q605 or on the Quadra 630... It is recommended that you NOT run A/UX 3.1.1 on the II, IIx, IIcx or SE/30 machines, since their MacOS-compatibility is unreliable under 3.1.1.

Recall that A/UX _is_ UNIX and thus contains some very hardware specific drivers. It's for this reason (and not Apple not doing things correctly) that A/UX won't work on newly released platforms. To support a new platform, at least _some_ work (and possibly extensive work in some cases) must be done.

If you really want to cut it close, 8MB RAM and an ENTIRE 80MB hard disk will just make it. You'll have little room for user files (unless you clear out some space by removing /games and maybe /catman) and depending on your workload, may suffer from low performance (due to swapping... you may even encounter the infamous swap messages :)

A much better system would be 16MB of RAM and about 200MB of disk space. This would give you much more room to grow as well as sufficient RAM to increase your performance (assuming that you tune some kernel parameters). All in all, more RAM is prefered: 20MB (or more) is ideal.

Chuck wrote:

I have both of those, but thank you. You (or anyone else) have a hardware
specs for A/UX? Been told that the Q800 wasnt supported. Just curious. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Danko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Another good A/UX resource.
Here's the other site. :)
http://aux.preterhuman.net/
Gary Danko wrote:
Here's a decent install guide. I found a better one awhile back.. I'll
post it when I find it again.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/

Chuck wrote:
Last one I have here....:
http://www.nleymann.de/appleAUX/AppleAUXMain.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:22 AM
Subject: Another good A/UX resource.
Heres another link to a good A/UX FAQ page.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aux-faq/part1/
Enjoy!
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