Callan Data (old 68000 box) boot problem

[Brian D. Botton]

In article <4177.27d824b1 at miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> dastrout at miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (root at next1) writes:
>Please Help!!!. I have the exact same thing!  I have a mess of floppys, but I
>Can't figure out how to make the system boot from a floppy instead of the HD.
>I would dearly love to make this system go, but am out of ideas.  Anyone w/
>one of these please contact me.  I will post a summary.
>

  I had a Callan Unistar until I bought a 3B1.  The 3B1 was about 10 times
faster and I just couldn't live with the slow Callan anymore.  I gave it away
about 2 years ago, but the guy I gave it to was my best man at my wedding
last September.  I'll give him a call and see if he still has it.
  Don't hold your breath though, he lives 4 hours away and I don't get
back home too often.  If you guys are still interested, send me e-mail.

  To make a boot floppy for the Callan, you have to go to the kernel object
and run the makefile there.  It builds a floppy unix with root and pipe on
the floppy and swap on the HD.  You format and mkfs on a floppy and move over
the files you need, along with the floppy unix.

  BTW, I got my machine because the college I went to was going to throw
them away.  So I digged one complete and one partial machine out of the trash.
Both machines had had monitor failures that fed high voltage back into the
video controllers, burning them out.  Fortunately, the video controller was
just a VT100 emulator, or perhaps it was a real VT100 controller board.
Anyway, I bought a used VT100 and then could boot and shutdown the machine
properly.
  Its too bad it was so slow.  I liked its lean, mean V7 operating system.
If it had been demand paging I might have been tempted to keep it.
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