Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!cohen From: cohen@dasys1.UUCP (David Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Help! -- Can't get IBM Xenix to run on IBM AT Message-ID: <5471@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 20:57:47 GMT Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 30 One of the programmers in our office found a set of IBM's Xenix shrink-wrapped in a garbage can. When I tried to install it on an IBM PC AT I was stymied. First, I could not get it to read the hard disk for bad tracks as instructed in the installation manual. After deciding to bypass that and access Xenix directly, I typed fd /xenix.fd and Xenix came up but the screen was all messed up, flickering like crazy and displaying the correct information but in 5 or more different places. Since this is version 1.0, I presume that the programmers at Microsoft wrote things in a non-standard fashion and since there were no EGA cards then (I have an IBM EGA card in the AT) the program can't handle it. Xenix does seem to function though. I have not proceeded further with the installation since I am not happy about the program not working when it is supposed to scan the hard disk for bad tracks nor am I happy about this screen problem -- I do not wish to risk trashing anything on the hard disk by installing a flaky OS on it and this seems kind of flaky. I am using DOS 3.1 on the AT, which came after the 1984 of Xenix 1.0, but still this should not be happening. Is this something fixable or must I track down a later version? Can I get a later version from IBM or am I stuck? Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. -- DC (David Cohen) -- David Cohen {uunet}!mstan\ Big Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!cohen New York, NY, USA {sun}!hoptoad/