16 Mar
2015
16 Mar
'15
7:54 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Roe Peterson <roeapeterson at gmail.com> wrote:
What disk controller do you have? That's the biggest issue.
I have run
2.9BSD on a real 11/24 (F-11, no split I&D).
Thats what I gleaned from comments in the unix faq. I am going to try installing 2.9 on
my 11/23+ and see how far I get. Can you recall if anything oddball was needed to
install it on the 24?
Nothing oddball except I had to have the right type of tape controller
to boot my install tapes (MS vs MT) and I had to have enough storage
on a supported controller. There was no MSCP support for 2.9BSD in
those days. There are modernish patches now. I did my install onto a
pair of RL02 disks (because I didn't have an RK07). You will need
more than 10MB if you want to rebuild the kernel, but you can put the
install kernel on a 10MB disk and noodle around. ISTR there's support
at install time for a number of types of system disk, but RK05 was now
too small. There are also 3rd-party ESDI and SMD controllers that
would work.
-ethan