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Thanks for the offer and install advice. I have ISOs for 10.20 and 3.3 (and original disks for each buried somewhere).

I'll give it a go some time in the near future and report back

mike

Then, if you have the SCSI CD-ROM, I guess you are set. I bet it is faster to install from the SD, though. I tried to order one from ebay and the caddy went powder...

Sophie's tips for the SD configuration were spot-on. It worked on the first attempt and that was truly impressive.

I'm having terrible problems with this machine. It came with an install of HPUX that ran okay, except that the hard drive seemed to be failing - like it would not spin up again for reads if left idle.

I ordered a ZuluSCSI and a few new Sandisk SD cards. It seems very picky re: SD cards. Using the same files on different cards, I get a range of behaviors. The best I've gotten with Nextstep is an install that hung halfway through. Other cards crash in the Next bootloader. I managed to get HPUX to install on a different card, but I get strange behaviors like complaints of missing libraries, which makes me think of data corruption. I can't get HPUX to load with the same configuration on a different card. I upgraded the Zulu firmware to the latest version without improvement.

I ordered a BlueSCSI today to see I have more luck. I swore to myself years ago that I would never touch optical drives again so that approach is out...


mike