Operating System for HP Visualize B2000 Workstation

[Noah Dalton]

I picked up a B2000 workstation pretty cheap yesterday and I was wondering if it was possible to put a windows OS on it. My school loads Windowws NT from a Solaris CDE. Could I do something like that? My difficulty now is logging into HPUX using the root login. I can't seem to change the password in single user mode. How do you do this? And yes I am very new to Unix. First time so be easy on me.

[Steven E. Protter]

What you need to do is get a Core OS CD from HP or ebay.

I believe that workstation will run 11i v1 or earlier.

You need to boot the workstation off the CD and do a new OS installation. You should folow this guide when doing so.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90829/B2355-90829_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90829/00/00/21-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90829/00/00/21-toc.html&searchterms=HP-UX%7cInstalling&queryid=20040313-205617

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[curt larson_1]

in single user mode only / and /stand are mounted file systems. So, utilities that reside in /usr or use shared libraries aren't going to be available, i.e. passwd,vi,vipw,etc.

The easiest way would be to mount the necessary file systems:
mount /usr
mount /var
mount /tmp

then use the passwd command to change your password. And, reboot your system

[Noah Dalton]

Thanks curt I think I will be able to do that. Steven, would I be able to run say XP off this workstation or just HPUX? Are you saying I can install a Windows based OS once I reinstall HPUX?

[Steven E. Protter]

My understanding is that visualize workstations that have PA-RISC chips as the B2000 does can not run Windows.

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[Noah Dalton]

No windows. Hmm. I can live with that. How about a DOS look alike like Freedos. I am going to be using this machine to operate a CNC milling machine. Any version of Windows would be great, but DOS or maybe even a Linux OS that is semi-compatible with some G-code software I need to run.

[Noah Dalton]

Err. Curt maybe I responded to soon. How do I mount a file system outside of single user mode since I can't login to HPUX? I can't do this when it is asking for the boot method can I?

[Steven E. Protter]

full guide

boot

intervene at the 10 second prompt

bo
Y Interact

hpux -is

or

hpux -lm

when it boots

find the mount command

mount /fsname

Its mounted.

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[Noah Dalton]

Thanks I got it.

[Geoff Wild]

You can install GNOME - sort of "windows" like - for HP-UX - that's what I use on my B2000...

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6852BA

Rgds...Geoff

[Gerard Leclercq]

Try linux on B2000.
See www.parisc-linux.org

Gerard