Many, many thanks to Ronald Shin, Bon Berno and Jeffrey Walton.
I got an really helpful answer to a question I didn't even ask. :-)
Fortunately, otherwise this would have been the next pitfall.
Here are the details.
TopSpin 2.1pl8 does not run under a 64bit version of Windows. I'm a little
bit surprised about that, because there are a lot of 32bit applications running
under the 64bit version of Windows. But maybe parts of TopSpin 2.1 are still
16bit applications, which really wouldn't run under a 64bit version. Anyway,
you need a 32bit version, which actually still exists of Windows 10.
But that's not all!
After three years of retirement, I really forget some details. I thought
all Avance consoles become already booted via tftp in a one step process.
They aren't. For AV-I consoles, the boot process it still runs in three stages.
As far as I remember, the first two stages were bootp and BFS (the Bruker
filesystem), the last stage is definitely NFS.
For this you need an NFS server.
The NFS server supplied with TopSpin 2.1pl8 no longer works with Windows 7 or
later, even in a 32bit version. Bob suggested to use "NFS solo" from the
"NT TOOLKIT CD" of the installation media from TS 3.0 to TS 3.2. Under
Windows 7 this should work. Under Windows 10 I have not tried this yet.
But the whole thing does not seem to be that complicated. Only a single
directory becomes exported via NFS without any restrictions on access rights.
There is also no connection with the boot order, the directory just has to
be available via NFS. You can find a number of NFS servers for Windows 10,
for example this one:
https://www.hanewin.net/nfs-e.htm
Unfortunately, I can't yet present any practical results for installing TS 2.1pl8
on Windows 10 just now. Acting out of retirement as an advisor, is an extremely
frustrating slow process.
You can't compare that to your own approach:
- try
- does not work
- bite the keyboard in anger
- calm down and wait until your teeth don't hurt anymore
- try again
- still does not work
- don't bite the keyboard again (remember the teeth ...) and instead sleep on it once
- try
- still not working
- drink coffee or a hot chocolate (whatever you prefer)
- and miraculously, as soon as you do everything right, it suddenly works.
Best wishes
Rainer
Received on Sat Oct 02 2021 - 22:41:40 MST