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- This directory contains all the resources needed to install VenturCom
- Venix on a DEC PRO 350 or 380.
-
- Use Venix 1.0 on a PRO 350 and Venix 2.0 on a PRO 380. Your machine
- should have an RD50, RD51, RD51A, or RD31 disk drive. Venix will
- not install properly on an RD52 or RD53 drive.
-
- venix1s.zip and venix1u.zip contain the VenturCom distribution of
- Venix 1.0 for the DEC PRO 350.
-
- venix2s.zip and venix2u.zip contain the VenturCom distribution of
- Venix 2.0 for the DEC PRO 380.
-
- Download venix1?.zip or venix2?.zip to your DOS machine, unpack it with
- PKUNZIP, then use TELEDISK to make RX50 floppies from the *.TD0 images.
- There is a copy of TELEDISK.ZIP included in both archives.
-
- One of the RX50 disks will be a bootable transfer/installation diskette.
- The others are tar format diskettes which the XFER/Boot diskette
- will read as it builds your root and usr areas onto the hard drive.
-
- You will need the installation code, which can be computed
- from the 'proacc' program on the venix.tar collection. Note
- that venix.tar is from a VAX development environment, not from
- a Venix machine. You should FTP venix.tar to a Unix platform
- and compile and run proacc as explained below.
-
- venix.tar contains the VenturCom algorithm for generating installation
- codes for Venix 1.0 and 2.0 on the DEC PRO 350 and 380. The source code
- is in dist/dist/proacc.c and the VAX executable is in dist/dist/proacc
- The algorithm can be compiled for other platforms as well.
-
- If you have no way to compile or run proacc, contact Barry Kort,
- bkort@musenet.org, and I'll run it for you. You will need to
- give me the serial numbers that come up when you try to install
- Venix on your PRO.
-
- There are other utilities in venix.tar including some for writing
- the serial number on the XFER diskette. This algorithm might also
- be usable to increase the number of permitted logins.
-
- The root password on Venix is 'gnomes'.
-
- Venix is essentially the same as Bell Labs' System III Unix.
- It includes UUCP, but there is no support for any TCP/IP.
-
- To make a raw copy of an RX50 diskette on Venix:
-
- dd < /dev/f0 > /dev/f1 bs=10b count=79
-
- You can use RX50 floppies for raw tar backups. You can create a
- mountable file system on a floppy with
-
- /etc/mkfs -b /dev/f0 790
- mount /dev/f0 /f0
-
- It is possible to log in via the serial port if /etc/ttys is
- edited appropriately. A line in /etc/ttys is "on" if the first
- digit is a 1. The second digit encodes the baud rate; for
- 9400, use the digit 1. After editing /etc/ttys, either reboot
- or do kill -2 1.
-
- venix?u.zip includes an additional raw tar RX50, goodies.td0,
- which has Kermit and other goodies on it. Binaries compiled
- for the PRO 350 will run on the 380, but generally not vice versa,
- since the 380 supports a more liberal overlay architecture than
- the 350. The version of Kermit is 4e(70). One final caution:
- goodies.td0 is a raw tar with ABSOLUTE PATHNAMES. I suggest
- examining it first with tar tv, because you may not want to
- overwrite all the original files there. The Goodies include
- Compress, Man, Head, Printenv, Kermit 4E and some UUCP stuff.
-
- RX50.notes is an archive collection of correspondence about
- reading, formatting, and archiving RX50 diskettes on an AT DOS
- machine, using various drivers and utilities.
-
- raind112.zip is one of the AT DOS driver packages discussed in
- RX50.notes. rx50.zip contains the RX50DRVR.SYS driver package.
- You don't need either of these for TELEDISK, but I offer them
- for those who want them for whatever purpose on their DOS machine.
-
- teledisk.zip is the Sydex utility for archiving RX50 diskettes
- for distribution via the Internet. It must be run on a DOS
- machine with a 5 1/4 HD floppy drive to create the RX50 format
- floppies from the *.TD0 archive files.
-
- Good luck! Post comments to comp.sys.dec.com
-
- Barry Kort
- bkort@musenet.org
-