About Atari UNIX

[Andrew Warkentin]

Plamen Mihaylov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing you because I saw a message in classiccmp.org about Atari 
> UNIX.
>
>>> "For those who own Atari TT030 workstations, I have finally gotten a
>>> hard
>>> disk with Atari's version of Unix System V on it running along with a
>>> diskette with setboot.prg utility that sets the nvram in the TT030's to
>>> recognize and boot from the Unix Hard Disk.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested, I can make ghost images of the 300MB SCSI
>>> hard disk
>>> for you.   One word of caution, according the Atari engineer who
>>> wrote Atari
>>> Unix, it does not work on all TT030's.   Some of the units had bugs and
>>> issues, most came back into Atari's service center where the -33 
>>> 68030's
>>> were replaced with slower 16mhz CPU's, so while I will guarantee that
>>> the
>>> image works, I cannot guarantee if your TT will have a problem or
>>> not.   So
>>> far I've tried it out with 3 TT's and they all work.   Also Atari
>>> Unix will
>>> recognize Riebl VME ethernet cards and set them as /dev/en0 so you
>>> can hook
>>> the TT up to the internet directly.   I personally am going to see if
>>> I can
>>> get Apache to work on the TT as it would be great to run a website for
>>> Atari's on an actual Atari computer.
>>>
>>> If you want a copy, I need a 300mb SCSI HD to Ghost the image to and
>>> you pay
>>> shipping to and from me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Curt
>>
> The sender email was no longer available so I'm writing in the mail-list
> - hope it is ok.
> I didn't know the Atari UNIX release recognize any ethernet device, but
> since Riebl will work
> I'm going to buy a  TT and the network adapter. Can someone who got the
> image upload it and give me a information about restoring it on a hard
> drive( is it obligatory at any cost to be a 300MB hdd )?
>
> Regards,
> Plamen
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I would also like a copy.