Hello:
I am the advisor to a UNIX Youth Mentor Program in Columbus, Ohio.
htp://369.columbus.oh.us
We are thinking of starting a new class on QNX. Upon downloading the
cdrom
version of QNX, much to my dismay, I found that it only works on x86:-(
We do not have any x86 harware, just Sun, IBM, HP, etc. [All donated:-]
We were given a few Texas Instuments TravelMate4000M 486 Intel DX4 75MHz
note book computers.
We made the CDroms and the boot floppies on them just fine.
It is our goal to not have windows at all on them, just QNX:-)
When we rebooted with the bootable floppy all started out well…
Long story short, QNX found both the EIDE controler and the SCSI aha2
controler. It found the disk drive. But, it looks like it can not find
the CD:-( Either the SCSI CD is not compatble with QNX or the
TI-Notebooks
are not compatable. We ran both the install and the verpose install.
Please take a look at the following and advise:-)
As I am sure you are aware, comming up with 10 to 20 used notebook
computers is not an easy task.
Again, thank you in advacne:-)
Detecting Disk Controllers and disks.
Detected EIDE controller. Scanning for devices…
Detected SCSI aha2 controller. Scanning for devices…
Unable to stat devb-aha2 blk auto=partition,cache=32k cam quiet (No such
file or directory).
Will Skip.
Contine (Enter)?
You already have a QNX Neutrino partition (type 79). You may delete it
in which case all files will be lost? If you choose not to delete the
partition the installation wil be aborted since the QNX Real Time
Platform
uses this partition type.
Delete(y, n)? y
Your disk has room for a 434 megabyte QNX partition?
Please select the sizee of the partition you would like to create for
QNX.
d Display parttion table allowing you to delete an existing partition.
1 all 434M
2 half 217M
3 quarter 108m
Choice (d, 1, 2, 3)? 1
Restarting driver and mounting filesystems…
Unable to mount /dev/cd0 as /cd
Partition installation aborted!
Please remove the install floppy and CD, then rebot your macnie.
Detecting disk controllers and diks.
Trying to detected EIDE.
Detected EIDE controller. Scanning for devices…
Executing devb-eide blk auto=partition,cache=32k
Path=0 - EIDE
target=- lun=0 Direct=Access(0) - ST9550AG Rev:
Trying to detected SCSI ncr8.
Trying to detected SCSI amd.
Trying to dtected SCSI aha8.
Trying to detected SCSI aha2.
Detected SCSI aha2 controller. Scanning for dvices…
Executing devb-aha2 blk auto=partition, cache=32k
Unable to start devb-aha2 blk auot=partition,cache=32k (No such file or
directory). Will skip.
Contine (Enter)?
Trying to detected SCSI aha4.
Trying to detected SCSI aha7.
Please enter the Disk you would like to install QNX to.
The disk must be bootable from your BIOS.
Disk Devices Type Size Heads Sectors Cylinders
1 /dev/hd0 EIDE 434M 16 69 942
Choose Disk (1)? 1
Please enter the filesystem you would like to install QNX from.
Disk Device Type
Filesystems ()?
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