Patches are against the latest qemu version. And yeah that’s where I got the ISO 🙂 You can see on that page though they never figured out how to get it installed. “Uncomplete version. Still fighting to make the CD or Floppy available after reboot of the 1st installation. ” I was actually thinking about trying to install the 8.6 patches you see there, but the 8.6 (and all other versions except 8.5) requires a dongle to work so I’d probably have to patch that somehow.

awesome!! What version of qemu to patch?

Also i assume youve seen this?

http://banyan-vines.bamertal.com/pages/banyan-vines-download.html

http://mail.nrw.ca/banyan_qemu.rar

VINES login is admin@NRW@NRW (their weird group/server names)
Vines password is empty, just hit enter
root password is root

Inside the rar file there is the qemu boot args I used, and the two ne2k patch files if you need them. Oh and I patched the tcpip setup program to try and bypass the option code, if you need to use the original unpatched (if it exits), it’s in /disk1/banyan/comm/mtcpip.orig. Another note, if you use find, you have to add -print to the end.

I’ll compress the image and upload it somewhere right now.

dude, I’d LOVE a copy… I’ve always wanted to try Banyan. I’ve never used it, I’ve only heard about it as the inspiration for Active Directory, more so than Netware 4.x’s NDS.

Yep, gerw up around Ontario, with the pain of what actually using QNX was like.. Never could understand why people would flock to a half baked wanna be UNIX, when there are so much better choices in the 21st century.

Lucky you actually finding a serial #. That’s too funny.

Love your site by the way. It’s awesome. Went to send you a message and say your about neozeed, you must have grown up in Ontario too? Since those machines were only here…. Anyway, I spent some time (and much effort) getting Banyan Vines installed in QEMU, what a royal fucking pain in the ass that was, because the CDROM uses some custom format that I have no idea wtf, and the install program won’t recognize the drive (definitely looking for a specific device id). Turns out the “ISO” basically has a bunch of CPIO tape archives inside it, used a hexeditor to find the addresses and manually separate them. Then I directly hexedited the raw hard drive image after ascii searching the install script that started up after boot that said reboot to install cdrom and added /bin/sh; instead of sync;doreboot. Now I started attaching each tape drive image as a second hard drive, and directly extracting the cpio archive, sync and reboot until they were all done. Then I had to edit the install script to bypass extracting off the cdrom and continue install anyway, finally that worked! Only to find out the whole system is locked down by crazy serial number and option code systems (even flipping tcp/ip stuff has a code to enable). So I had to break out the IDA decompiler, and patch the stupid serial # system to accept fake crap, but it still got upset later because it said it was invalid. So I found some screenshots of an old running system, took the serial number off that and directly inserted it into the database…. Voila! So maybe you’re interested in a copy.

Oh yeah, I was able to get networking working in it too, but not before I had patch the ne2k code in qemu because it didn’t work reliably at all. First issue was, most of the time it wouldn’t pass traffic properly because of a receive bug (Though it did work a couple times out of the blue). Second issue was the whole damn ne2k nic would stop working after ~1-2k packets. But it works reliably now! I’m not sure but I think you might have hit those bugs too from reading your pages…

Len