19 Oct
2024
19 Oct
'24
5:20 p.m.
On 10/19/2024 12:00 PM, cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
[cctalk] Re: RSX11M installation on real PDP11
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.
If you go this route, be advised, that SIMH creates RD32 disk images are not the same
size as a real RD32. This will likely cause problems when writing a SIMH created image to
a real disk (and I'm not talking about the additional issues that the trailing
metadata on disk images from the Pizzolato version of SIMH can cause - the problem I'm
describing is caused by an incorrect disk size value in SIMH).
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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason(a)comcast.net