Genera 8.3 Setup, Part 2

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 04:07:18 +0000

Good evening with the XL1201 tonight. TL;DR:

Got NFS working on Genera, mostly
- Need to fix UIDs
- Showed editing a file on NFS server
Showed the SELECT-P peeking stuff
Saved file listings for downloading
Fine lines on the console

Continuing on from Part 1…

NFS Server, part 2

Let’s export /genera for use in all our Genera servers, and make a UID/GID especially for that. I’ll also export the root read-only directory just in case I want to access any of my other files on this server.

Setting Up Genera 8.3, Part 1

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:48:00 +0000

I’m setting up Genera 8.3 on the XL1201 using a clean hard drive. Literally all this hard drive has on it is Genera 8.3 and these patches:

Genera 8.3 y2k patches
Copy world patch
Fepfs patch

This hard drive was sold by David K. Schmidt and has had most things set up already, so we’re not actually doing a full installation from CD-ROM.

Let me preface this by saying that I have read a lot of the documents on Bitsavers but have no actual experience with Genera and haven’t had almost any guidance on what I’m attempting to try. My goal here is two-fold:

Nfs on Symbolics LISP Engineering

Genera 8.3 Setup, Part 2

NFS Server, part 2

Setting Up Genera 8.3, Part 1