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Article #7291Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation?
From: Richard Sharpe
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32
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-- > Hello. We've recently installed two Personal DECstation 25s on our >network. Our biggest problem was that doconfig didn't work, and they didn't >give us enough information to gen a kernel that recognized the keyboard or >mouse (I guess DEC considers these memory wasting features). > > Anyway, the systems are up, but nothing wants to recognize the >floppy drive. The devs are gens, but my guess is the kernel doesn't have >the support features in it. This is interesting, because I have recently (Nov 92) re-installed about 5 personal DECstations (mixture of /25s and /33s) under ULTRIX 4.3, and they all worked and MTools worked without any problems. You have to use /dev/rfd0c on the personal DECstations, but I set MTools up to use /dev/floppy and then link /dev/floppy to the appropriate thing on each WS, as I like to place MTools binaries in /usr/local/bin and then NFS mount it on lots of clients. Regards -------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com, Ph: 61-8-235-7237, FAX: ...-7299 Digital Equipment Corporation, 139 Frome St, Adelaide 5001, South Australia, OZ * I have children to keep me poor in a monetary sense, but rich in so many * * other ways! * All opinions are those of the author, not of Digital Equipment!
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!udel!bogus.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!nmesis!sharpe From: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe) Subject: Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation? Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233207.250@engage.pko.dec.com> Keywords: mtools floppy personal decstation Sender: sharpe@nmesis (Richard Sharpe) Reply-To: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1993Jan26.180409.5152@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32:07 GMT Lines: 27