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Re: No Posts
Article: 8452 of alt.hackers From: mjarvis@qns2.qns.com (Michael Jarvis) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: No Posts Date: 22 Aug 1995 18:56:17 -0500 Organization: Questar Network Services Lines: 33 Approved: michael@jarvis.com Message-ID: 41dqr1$3ht@qns2.qns.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
bp@oil.com (bp@oil.com (Spectre)) wrote:
> How come there are so few posts here? Any ideas?
Everybody is probably working on their latest...
Obhack:
I recently acquired an old AT&T 3B2/310. It has a 10Mhz WE32100
processor, 4 MB of RAM, a 71 MB MFM hard drive, and runs AT&T SysV 3.2.
It was a little bare on software, so I decided to snarf some stuff from
the 'net to install.
I don't have an external modem, and haven't gotten it networked yet (I
*DO* have an ethernet card for it!), so I decided to use the floppy
drive. The floppy drive on the 3b2 uses normal DSDD 5.25" floppies,
formatted with 80 tracks and 9 sectors/track, for a capacity of 720K. It
was pretty trivial to get linux to recognize floppies formatted this way,
but I was unable to get linux to recognize the 3b2 filesystem, and the
3b2 was unable to recognize any of the linux filesystems.
What I wound up doing was using "dd" to write the files from linux to
/dev/fd1, and then use "dd" again on the 3b2 to read the files
back in.
It worked like a champ! My 3b2 is now running tcsh and vile, which I
consider bare minimums for a decent Unix box. :-) By the way, vile took
over 6 hours to compile, including several 10-minute hacks to the source
code and include files.
-michael
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