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So I pulled out a spare Quadra 700 and am trying to get an install of A/UX going. So far in terms of hit and miss there's been a lot of misses.

I started by installing 3.0.1. I partitioned it correctly on a 1gb drive and made the mac partition extra large (128mb) for extra software and stuff. The install went smoothly and I did end up with a useable system but the tune-up packages are confusing me.

So officially they are known as Tune-up 1 (two disks) and Tune-up 2 (one disk). Tune-up 1 updates to 3.0.2. Tune-up 2 updates to 3.11 but requires 3.1 and recommends the "AWS Software Upgrade" in order to proceed if you do not have 3.1. I cannot find this, assuming it was some free update in between the tune-ups.

Anyways, even applying tune-up 1 caused everything to go sideways. The machine now boots but the moment A/UX kicks in the screen begins freaking out and the ADB stops responding. Eventually you're dumped to a text prompt because A/UX has given up fighting with the Toolbox for some reason and there's nothing I can do from there because with no ADB the keyboard is dead. Did I simply apply the patch incorrectly?

Also, I've noticed that unless I write protect the floppies the machine trashes the filesystem on the disks. I know bloody well this isn't an issue with the floppy drive as even before I started on this project the drive was removed, cleaned, lubed and tested. It was reading, writing and overall not molesting disks before.

System ran all night with every hardware and disk exerciser and test utility I had on hand. The machine if flawless. I even had a power interruption just before I woke up this morning and the Quadra was the only machine int the house that wasn't a laptop that didn't go down.

Anyways, PRAM cleared, A/UX was reinstalled starting with the 3.0.1 install media, then the tune-up to 3.0.2, then I used buddy's 3.1 upgrade disc and now I'm trying to apply the tune-up to 3.1.1. Having been so well behaved for the last 24 hours, now it finally starts to be a pain in the ass again.

-First try, insert floppy, system locks solid

*reboot*

-Second try, insert floppy, it mounts but the updater quits with error -2somethingsomething

*reboot*

-Third try, regenerate Tune-Up diskette, insert and it mounts, run the updater and the machine locks solid.

*reboot*

-Fourth try, regenerate diskette again using a disk image from another source*, insert and it mounts and it runs and the update is successfully applied.

The floppy drive is still being a massive pain in the ass and corrupting any disk you feed it unless the write protect is set so I might just have to swap it out and hope the problem goes with it. Otherwise I think I got it sorted out now.

*Both are from the Jagubox FTP, however the working disk image was in /Apple.fixes/supported/3.1/aws-tune.0/, the image that was causing me problems was in /Apple.fixes/supported/aws-tuneup-2.0/.