Pilots - help ! problems with dog,shadow on 3130

[Jack P. Weldon]

In article <1990Dec31.051400.4340 at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> topix at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes:
>In article <1214 at shakti.ncst.ernet.in> dhekne at ncst.ernet.in (Dhekne c/o NCST) writes:
>>
>>	But I am unable to run 'dog' and 'shadow' over the network.
>>As soon as I run them, they come out with the error message
>>'Ethernet Initialisation failed'. 
>>
>
>A 3000 series machine can be booted with one of 3 kernels - tcp, nfs, or xns.
>It sounds like you are running nfs.  Your machine will have to be re-booted
>using the 3000.xns kernel, which will allow you to dogfight but will render
>the machine worthless on nfs (it's a trade-off).  If you are really desperate
>to dogfight, you boot up the xns kernel, do your dogging, then switch back 
>and reboot with the nfs kernel.  If you can't figure out 
>how to reboot different kernels, e-mail me and I'll fill you in.  
>Suggestion:  buy 4D's.  This problem doesn't
>exist on 4D platforms.  After all, dogging is the most important things
>these machines do :-)
>
>Bob Munroe
>topix at utcs.utoronto.ca

Actually this is NOT correct, although it does work.  The binary for dog 
was accidentally compiled with XNS support in the 3.6c maint release, which 
is what most users have installed on their 3000s. I have put a copy of the 
original 3.6 TCP-compiled version of dog on sgi.sgi.com:~ftp/sgi/dog_3000/dog. 
And will remove it within a few weeks or so...

Unfortunately I cannot provide all of the dog-related programs in non-XNS 
compiled form. My suggestion would be to get the demo-source for 3000s 
(if it still available) from: monica at corp.sgi.com and compile it yourself. 
Send email to Monica to see if it is still available, and what the cost/
procedure would be. 

I have also heard that the flight/dog source for 4Ds will compile on a 3000
because an engineer was kind enough to put the 3000 iris.mk file in the 4D
demo source, but I have not confirmed this yet.


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Cheers, 
			        	
Jack P. Weldon
(jweldon at csd.sgi.com)