Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
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by zdw
4 hours ago
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| thomasw.dev
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yjftsjthsd-h
32 minutes ago
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> To start off the install, we begin with the “System setup and README” disk. We need to partition the disk, and then do something counter-intuitive: install System 6 on a Mac partition. This is because there’s a Mac application that kicks off the A/UX boot process: SASH; the A/UX standalone shell. This ‘pre-boot environment’ allows for launching an A/UX kernel and also some disk and recovery operations.

Funny how that rhythms with having a macOS install next to Asahi Linux. The more things change:)

Also, swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.

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classichasclass
4 minutes ago
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A/UX 1.0 came on a pre-written 80MB disk, which indeed would have been a lot easier.
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