Preposterous Time / New White Box Setup

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Title: Preposterous Time / New White Box Setup
Post by: jmacz on May 17, 2024, 03:01:34 PM
First post... Hi!  ;D

Just finished putting together a NeXTStep 3.3 white box setup using a Pentium II and various compatible cards (graphics, network, scsi). It was pretty straight forward the only exception being getting the Etherlink III 3C509B-TPO working. For that, I needed to run 3Com's DOS based configuration tool to grab the proper address value out. But everything's up now and working great.... cept one thing.

Looks like I'm unable to change the date/time to today's date. I remember seeing a message during install about a "preposterous date/time" and now no matter how many times I attempt to change it, it won't take and keeps resetting back to an old date/time. Is this a known issue?

Title: Re: Preposterous Time / New White Box Setup
Post by: pTeK on May 17, 2024, 09:41:44 PM
Quote from: jmacz on May 17, 2024, 03:01:34 PMLooks like I'm unable to change the date/time to today's date. I remember seeing a message during install about a "preposterous date/time" and now no matter how many times I attempt to change it, it won't take and keeps resetting back to an old date/time. Is this a known issue?

Have you installed all the NextStep 3.3 patches? (https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Patches/NEXTSTEP_3.3_User_Patch_3/)
Title: Re: Preposterous Time / New White Box Setup
Post by: jmacz on May 17, 2024, 10:33:07 PM
Quote from: pTeK on May 17, 2024, 09:41:44 PMHave you installed all the NextStep 3.3 patches? (https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Patches/NEXTSTEP_3.3_User_Patch_3/)

Ah! Thank you!
Title: Re: Preposterous Time / New White Box Setup
Post by: pTeK on May 18, 2024, 08:55:20 PM
Quote from: jmacz on May 17, 2024, 10:33:07 PMAh! Thank you!

So that solved the problem and your NeXT box is all up and running?

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