On 2/18/19 1:55 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote:
On Feb 18, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Alan Perry via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a mid-90s
PReP architecture machine)?
I initially tried to install Solaris 2.5.1 on it and created the boot floppy by
dd'ing the image using a SPARCstation (running NetBSD). I dd'ed the image over,
dd'ed it back and verified the SPARCstation could read back what it had written
to the floppy. The RS/6000 loads what is on the floppy, but hangs transferring
control to what it loaded.
The 7043-140 does not appear on the list of supported systems in the Solaris
2.5.1 release notes, so, even though 2.5.1 supports PReP and the 7043-140 is a
PReP machine, maybe they aren't compatible, so I tried NetBSD. The 7043-140 is
listed as a supported system.
The NetBSD boot floppy images are confusing to me. The files are too large to
fit on a 1.44M floppy. I didn't see instructions on how to make boot floppies
out of the .fs files one can download in the install instructions. I went ahead
and tried to dd the part that fits onto a 1.44M floppy and try to boot that and
of course that failed. I have e-mailed the NetBSD prep mailing list and no
response from that.
The system does boot the AIX install on one of its hard disks, but this is a
recycled system and I don't have usernames/passwords for that install.
Does anyone here have a suggestion on how to proceed?
alan
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Alan,
does the machine also have a CD drive? I got a *lot* of help fast from
this list last year while resetting root and user passwords on one of those
machines by using the first CD of the AIX install set. I guess that won’t help
toward solaris but at least you could run AIX.
- Mark
Yes, it has a CD drive. Do you recall what month the discussion was so I
know where to start looking in the list archive?
It sounds as if Solaris doesn't run on the 604e in the 43p/7043 (I will
never understand IBM model designations); I just want to make the system
usable at this point.
alan
