vpix and the a: drive...

[Bob Hepple - Sun Asia Mktg]

In article <1208 at bcs800.UUCP>, jeffs at bcs800 (Jeff Smith) writes:
>has anyone out there successfully installed vpix on a xenix (or unix)
>machine?  I have installed sco vpix 1.2 on xenix 2.3.3 386 and
>cannot seem to get it to access either the first floppy drive (so I
>can't install any software) or the first (primary) dos partition on
>the second physical harddisk.  under xenix, the floppy works as
>/dev/rfd096ds15; a standard 1.2 M 5 1/4.  the second hard drive
>is /dev/rdsk/1s0.  I've tried everything but the correct answer in
>vpix.cnf, but even when a: is set to rfd096ds15, which works in
>xenix, vpix doesn't even TRY to access the drive before a drive
>not ready error.  
>
>Has anyone got this to work? 

Yes - but I used an earlier version of vpix. To get the floppies to
work, I recall that I had to chmod +w them. And I used /dev/hd00 as my
DOS partition. I had to chmod that too. I had problems with floppy B:
(a 3 1/2" drive) but they went away when I upgraded the 2.3.0 system
to 2.3.3 with SLS xnx155.

Now, if I could only get the mouse to work ...

Hope this helps,

Bob Hepple

Business Development Manager-Solutions
Sun Microsystems Inc	
Asia Headquarters	
29/F Shui On Centre	
8 Harbour Rd		
Hong Kong

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