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Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection

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On Friday, March 23, 2012 2:05:22 PM UTC-7, supervinx wrote:
> >> ... But the emulator
> > would be really useful if it could be used as an install and diskless
> > node server.
> That's my idea ;) Since ESDI disks are dying, we can boot the node diskless from
> the emulator and save data on SCSI disk connected to the WD controller.

If we go in this direction, then why would you even need a disk on the WD7000, or a WD7000 at all? Or any controller?.. Just save data to a partition on the diskless server running the emulator. I guess for someone with a bare Apollo with no contoller, this would be a viable option. But I am in the same camp as Lothar - I'm doing this because of the "museum" aspect of all of this and the original HW/SF interplay of the Original Apollo computers...Not so much because of the novelty of the OS alone. Sadly the ESDI issue is the most urgent. Im always nervous when I fire up my most valuable machine with the 760MB HD and cross my fingers that a head wont crash! :)

On a related topic (diskspace) ...Lothar. So I got your SR10.4.1 upgrade and unpacked it in /install but unfortunately my 380MB drive ran out of disk space during the unpacking. Is it even possible to have a full SR10.4.1 AA with a 380MB drive? I'm thinking I may need another disk to store the .gz file and unpack it from there into the /install directory. Thoughts/hints?

-Kurt

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Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 18:46 -0700
  Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-17 08:28 +0000
    Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-18 18:07 +0100
      Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-18 18:00 +0000
        Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 13:03 -0700
          Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-18 22:12 +0100
            Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 10:13 -0700
              Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-19 19:32 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 13:03 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-19 20:08 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 14:42 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-19 23:28 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-19 17:42 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-20 07:56 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-20 06:11 -0700
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                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-21 07:23 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-21 20:51 +0100
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-21 15:04 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 10:24 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-19 17:50 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 12:15 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-20 21:02 +0100
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-22 19:08 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-23 07:17 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-23 05:41 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-24 22:38 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-24 18:13 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-25 10:14 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-25 06:53 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-23 21:32 +0100
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-23 21:05 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 15:01 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-24 08:11 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-24 13:18 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-24 16:54 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2012-03-24 11:44 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection james@forluna.co.uk - 2012-03-27 13:42 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2012-03-27 21:08 +0000
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2012-03-28 07:10 -0700
                Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Lothar Paltins <lptmp01@arcor.de> - 2012-03-24 20:34 +0100
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