Has anyone successfully installed Xenix on the Lisa using an X/Profile as the hard drive? I downloaded the Xenix boot and sys disks from the bitsavers site as referenced in this thread
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?3582-Anyone-ever-seen-Lisa-Xenix
I did not have any luck with the images from the mediafire site, but bitsavers worked. I transferred them to floppy using BLU and the serial 'copy to memory' and 'write to disk' floppy functions. This seems to have worked very well and the boot disk does indeed boot. I get
boot
:
I work through the first part of the installation, when it starts to prepare the hard disk, I get the error as seen here...
http://i.imgur.com/S7r2LcP.jpg it hangs after the last line shown. (This was actually after running hdinst, after the installation program bombs in a similar manner and drops me to a # prompt.)
I tried several CF cards and different options for preparing the STAR and disk size. So far I have not stumbled on the right combination.
I've read this page
http://sigmasevensystems.com/xpf_xenix.html and tried the suggestions without luck, I have firmware 121 with a date of 2013, so this shouldn't be necessary but I'm pretty new with the X/Profile, so there could be user errors.
Anyone get an installation of Xenix working on the X/Profile?
Thanks...Win
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?3582-Anyone-ever-seen-Lisa-Xenix
I did not have any luck with the images from the mediafire site, but bitsavers worked. I transferred them to floppy using BLU and the serial 'copy to memory' and 'write to disk' floppy functions. This seems to have worked very well and the boot disk does indeed boot. I get
boot
:
I work through the first part of the installation, when it starts to prepare the hard disk, I get the error as seen here...
http://i.imgur.com/S7r2LcP.jpg it hangs after the last line shown. (This was actually after running hdinst, after the installation program bombs in a similar manner and drops me to a # prompt.)
I tried several CF cards and different options for preparing the STAR and disk size. So far I have not stumbled on the right combination.
I've read this page
http://sigmasevensystems.com/xpf_xenix.html and tried the suggestions without luck, I have firmware 121 with a date of 2013, so this shouldn't be necessary but I'm pretty new with the X/Profile, so there could be user errors.
Anyone get an installation of Xenix working on the X/Profile?
Thanks...Win