Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-12 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Oct 11, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Sophie Haskins via cctalk wrote: > > I'm pretty sure these are just raw images, as Torfinn suggested. Sophie is correct. What’s commonly referred to as an ISO is just a raw dump of the bytes on a volume; there’s no imposed structure, no imposed file headers, nothi

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-12 Thread alan--- via cctalk
Thanks Josh! I knew you were good for something despite what Stephan says... :) -Alan On 2018-10-11 22:58, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: FYI: I just burned "DGUX 5.43-R3.10.MU1.ISO to disc and booted it successfully on my AViiON 8500. Haven't tried the others yet, but I'm guessing they'r

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:17 PM jim stephens via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On 10/11/2018 2:33 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:06 PM alan--- via cctalk > > wrote: > > > >>However I have not been able to read the ISO images - as they do

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/11/2018 2:33 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:06 PM alan--- via cctalk wrote: However I have not been able to read the ISO images - as they don't appear to have the proper magic/headers for ISO. Can anyone else work their file-type-foo on them a

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread alan--- via cctalk
If you haven't found it already: https://secure.ping.de/~fdc/m88k/av300/nvram.html -Alan On 2018-10-11 11:02, Sophie Haskins via cctalk wrote: I'm pretty sure these are just raw images, as Torfinn suggested. If you run strings(1) on them, you see the contents of all sorts of shell scripts an

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Sophie Haskins via cctalk
I'm pretty sure these are just raw images, as Torfinn suggested. If you run strings(1) on them, you see the contents of all sorts of shell scripts and the text portion of binaries, etc. I'm guessing that the images have a partition table header that libmagic just doesn't know about. I'm waiting on

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:42, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > I've tried loop mounting with no success. Is there a software tool > (Linux or Windows) that will burn a non-ISO image to a CD? Most > expect/assume ISO-9660. On Windows (a few years ago, I no longer run it in normal use), my personal

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 07:42 alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > I've tried loop mounting with no success. Is there a software tool > (Linux or Windows) that will burn a non-ISO image to a CD? Most > expect/assume ISO-9660. > cdrecord or wodim should burn anything you want to the disk. They wouldn't

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread alan--- via cctalk
I've tried loop mounting with no success. Is there a software tool (Linux or Windows) that will burn a non-ISO image to a CD? Most expect/assume ISO-9660. I don't have a keyboard or proper SCSI cable yet for my Aviion, so I can't try booting anything. I supposed I could just point a SCSI

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 11:33, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: > > Maybe they are just dumps? In whatever format DG/UX expects > There could be hints on the documentation ISO. > Unfortunately, the files on the documentation ISO is in "WorldView" > format (aka "printerleaf") and a converter (pl

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-11 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:06 PM alan--- via cctalk wrote: > However I have not been able to read the ISO images - as they don't > appear to have the proper magic/headers for ISO. Can anyone else work > their file-type-foo on them and give me any hints? > One of them is ISO: [tingo@kg-elitebo

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-10-10 Thread alan--- via cctalk
All, Martin's uploads are temporarily hosted at https://www.atlhcs.org/dgux/. However I have not been able to read the ISO images - as they don't appear to have the proper magic/headers for ISO. Can anyone else work their file-type-foo on them and give me any hints? Thanks, -Alan On 2

RE: DG/UX install media

2018-10-01 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
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Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 10:38 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 09/27/2018 10:11 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > > He's always interested in *ANY* unix distribution he doesn't already > have. > > His goal is their preservation first. You can't argue about whether >

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread shadoooo via cctalk
Hello, I'm very interested in any media / documentation for Aviion machines too (I have two of them). Bruce: nice to hear from you! >From your affirmation, I suspect there will be a very happy ending! Any good news also for older OS for Nova and Eclipse (DOS, RDOS, AOS)? Thanks Andrea

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread Bruce Ray via cctalk
AViiON Aficionatos - Resolution of questions regarding DG/UX software title, licensing and availability will be announced next month at the Nova-At-50.org conference. Bruce Ray Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc. Boulder, Colorado USA b...@wildharecomputers.com ...preserving the Data General

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 09/27/2018 10:11 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: He's always interested in *ANY* unix distribution he doesn't already have. His goal is their preservation first. You can't argue about whether or not you have the rights to distribute something that doesn't exist, so he's making it possible

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:04 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 09/26/2018 11:58 AM, Martin Marshall via cctalk wrote: > > Alan, I have an archive of Aviion documentation and DG/UX 4.30 in a > > bz2 file. The total amount of the archive is about 62 MB. I can upload

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 09/26/2018 11:58 AM, Martin Marshall via cctalk wrote: Alan, I have an archive of Aviion documentation and DG/UX 4.30 in a bz2 file. The total amount of the archive is about 62 MB. I can upload the archive if you have a ftp site. Warren Toomey (BCCed for privacy) with The Unix Heritage So

RE: DG/UX install media

2018-09-26 Thread Martin Marshall via cctalk
Alan, I have an archive of Aviion documentation and DG/UX 4.30 in a bz2 file. The total amount of the archive is about 62 MB. I can upload the archive if you have a ftp site. Martin > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of alan-- > - via c

Re: DG/UX install media

2018-09-26 Thread Sophie Haskins via cctalk
I too am very interested in this - I just picked up an AViiON on eBay and I’m excited to restore it but have seen precious little in the way of OS images or manuals and the like Sophie > On Sep 26, 2018, at 1:05 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > Does anyone have install media for DG/UX target