Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-14 Thread Al Kossow
what I just posted on comp.sys.xerox I probably should just email Don Woodward or Dave Curbow. On 10/13/16 11:03 AM, Huge wrote: > Has *no-one* implemented an XNS time-server on, say, Linux? > There are Unix implementations of XNS from way back, but as far as I know no one has moved

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/13/16 7:42 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > from the VP install script: > > Request 6085 VP Standalone: Common Software > Comment Installing Standalone Common Software... > Online RD0 > Data User Standalone and Remote > Data User Terminal Emulation Common Software > Erase Scavenger > Fetch

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck > the disk image over to me there's a few things I could try... I have a > 6085 running VP & Lisp images from Dave's MFM emulator. > the way that the script works for viewpoint is it

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/13/16 3:38 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > Today's project is trying to get Smalltalk installed. requirements 8k control store, 3.7mb memory and it turns out you can't have anything higher than a rev C IOP board, I assume it doesn't know how to deal with the changes made for the bigger disks

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
Oh, and a HUGE thank you to Dave for getting 6085 sector extraction working this past week! On 10/13/16 3:38 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > >> Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck >> the disk image over to me there's a few

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck > the disk image over to me there's a few things I could try... I have a > 6085 running VP & Lisp images from Dave's MFM emulator. > I only have one emulator right now, and I've been

Re: booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Mike Ross
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > the perennial '937' problem > > just installed 6085 XDE 5.0 from floppies but there is no option in the > installer to load and setup to boot settimedove.boot from the copilot volume > > someone must have figured this out >

booting 6085 XDE 5.0 settime.boot

2016-10-13 Thread Al Kossow
the perennial '937' problem just installed 6085 XDE 5.0 from floppies but there is no option in the installer to load and setup to boot settimedove.boot from the copilot volume someone must have figured this out on the other hand, since none of the compilers or actual useful stuff is