[LispM] MacIvory Setup

[Raymond Wiker]

Francois-Rene Rideau writes:
 > > 	I had a bit of trouble setting up the machine with the new
 > > disk, partly caused by the fact that my CDROM is not an original
 > > Apple unit, and so requires a custom (or modified) driver.
 > What speed is your CDROM? If it is more than 1X,
 > I might be wrong about my failure diagnostic during installation.
 > ICAC, the failure is as follows, when executing the Restore Disk FEP command
 > (SCSI ID 3 being my Apple CD600e, aka MATSHITACD-ROM CR-8006 1.0m):
 > [2001-02-19 06:35:00 (GMT) :: Restoring disk unit 0 from CART27: ...
 >  [2001-02-19 06:35:00 (GMT) :: Creating an initial FEP file system on disk unit 0 ... done.:: 2001-02-19 06:45:08 (GMT)]
 >  Superseding condition=>  disk: Unit 0 at SCSI ID 3, status: 2, sense: 5, additional-sense: 72, sector NIL, reason: NIL
 >  [Error: Error while opening CART27:: UMAKE-INSTANCE on :closed NIL <<Error printing #<DTP-ARRAY 37000554450>>> with REFERENCE-COUNT = NIL]

	This is different from the error message I got (*very* :-))

	I got something like unrgecognised exception, or something
like that. Still, you're running a later version of the OS than I am,
so it's still *possible* that it's the same problem. Given that you
have some smaller partitions available, it might be interesting to try
installing something on one of them.

 > > The same goes for the hard disk: it is not one of the
 > > Apple-OEM'ed units, so I had to get a patched version of HD
 > > setup.
 > I was sent Hard Disk Tools 2.x, which has more features than HD SC
 > Setup, in case this helps.

	I'm using HD SC setup 7.35, patched for use with non-Apple
disks. It doesn't seem very complex, but I wouldn't say that I miss
any functionality, either :-)

 > > The OS is MacOS 7.5.5, by the way, with OpenTransport (a TCP/IP
 > > package) 1.1.2 installed on top of it.
 > I could find an old copy of 7.6, and installed the 7.6.1 upgrade.
 > It looks like OTP 1.1.2 prevents the MacOS from seeing netatalk
 > shares at startup, whereas 7.5.5 + MacTCP sees it perfectly.
	
	Interesting.

 > Side note: I found myself with a wealth of space on my 9G drive,
 > and attempted to install Linux/mac68k, but it wouldn't recognize
 > either of my graphics cards. BSD hates the IIfx at all. Too bad for
 > the '030, with no half-decent OS on it. But the most important
 > processor is the Ivory, anyway, and IT has a sexy OS.

	I have much the same feeling about MacOS. I have been told
that 8.1 is better, so I'll probably upgrade at some point. Still, I
don't expect to use the Mac parts of the machine much.

 > > (Actually, when I had a single 4GB partition, the MacIvory
 > > control panel suggested a FEP partition of about 2GB. I suspect
 > > that there may be a limit of 2GB for a FEP partition - does
 > > anybody know?)
 > When I forced the size over 2GB in the little box in the control
 > panel, it a) accepted it b) now printed the size as a negative
 > number.  So I guess the 2GB limit has to do with some unresolved
 > signedness or unsignedness issue with the 32-bit integers encoding
 > partition size.

	Interesting (again).

 > > 	At this point I was able to boot Genera. The first thing to be
 > > done [...]
 > Thanks a lot for all the tips with Genera. I'll try them all this
 > weekend.

	No problem... I said I was going to write something down, and
it should have been done *much* earlier. Sorry.

 > > I chose to do a "Save World Complete" (after first doing
 > > "Optimize World").
 > Optimizing the World, Saving it.
 > "C'est tout un programme! (It's a whole program!)", as we say in
 > french...

	My God - I didn't even think of that! Has anybody noticed any
changes, yet?

	//Raymond.