18 Oct
2024
18 Oct
'24
11:43 p.m.
You may want to use simh (where you'll be able to mount tapes and RL02
images) to do the installation and generate an RD32 image. Once you have
the disk image, use vtserver (note - some versions are limited to 32MB
images, but there are some that remove that limitation - check if the
struct vtcmd in vtserver.c uses 2 or 4 bytes for the block number), or
PDP11GUI (Windows only) to transfer the RD32 disk image to your PDP over a
serial port.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello to the group,
I have acquired some boards and a backplane for a PDP 11/23+. The disk
controller is an RQDX3 and I have a 3.5" drive that works as an RX50. I
have a greazeweasle so I am able to write RX50 images to 3.5 inch
floppies. I also have an RD32 MFM drive that also works.
Since I have an M8189 CPU board, I have a second serial port that works as
a TU58 device so I can use the tu58em emulator. I also have 512K of memory
and a DZV11. Using the TU58 emulator I have been able to get RT-11 up and
running on it.
My goal though is to try and get RSX11M (I have no FPP right now) on it,
but I am somewhat at a loss on how to get it installed. Anyone have any
suggestions on how I could do that? I have some .tap files and some RL02
images with various versions of RSX11M, but I don't know how to get them
onto my RD32 drive.
Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions.
And let me just say I love finally having a real PDP11!!
-Peter