System 7.0 and A/UX

Kent Sandvik ksand at Apple.COM
Fri May 17 16:26:16 AEST 1991


In article <1991May16.105935.14623 at agate.berkeley.edu> dpassage at soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) writes:
>Will System 7 and A/UX coexist with eachother happily?  If not, why not, and
>when?  I've got A/UX on order (my "dealer" is the UC Berkeley student sales
>program, who apparently don't know the difference between a CD-ROM and the
>Led Zeppelin boxed set), and want to know if it's worthwhile to install
>System 7 on my Mac now or if I'll have to rip it all out when I finally get
>my copy of A/UX.
>
>Or here's a possible scenario:  System 7 on my internal drive with A/UX in a
>Unix partition and System 6 in a MacOS partition on my external drive.
>Will it work?  Will I be able to easily switch-boot among the three?  Or is
>there a better solution?

You can't start the standalone shell from System 7 due to a problem
described in TN229. The solution is to either boot from another hard
disk with the System 6 environment, boot from a floppy which should be
quite painless, or make use of the Blesser utility (available on the
Developer Services CDs) which blesses/unblesses system folders on the same
volume.

Kent

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