21 May
2000
21 May
'00
7:31 p.m.
On May 21, Zane H. Healy wrote:
You can fit the entire distribution on a TK50 tape. I used
a DECstation 5000/20 running Ultrix to produce a TK50 tape
that will boot on my 11/73. There is a C program that comes
with the 2.11 distribution that can be used to build a
distribution tape. You just need to compile it on your system,
it probably only runs under Unix, and point it at your tape
drive. The process of producing a tape takes around 20 or
30 minutes, if I remember correctly.
The biggest problem that I had in the entire process was
flakey disks on the 11/73. The standard 2.11 distribution
doesn't handle bad blocks, so if you are using a RD5X drive
it had better be free of bad blocks, at least in the first
few cylinders where the root and swap file systems are
placed.
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Since this is related to getting 2.11BSD up on my
PDP-11/73 I figure it's
Semi-OT.
OK, I figured since I'd had to pull the TZ30 I might as well just plug it
into the DECstation 5000/133 I've got. I take it that such a beasty won't
recognize a TZ30? Doing a "CNFG 3" turned up the two RZ25's in the thing,
but not the tapedrive, and I couldn't see it from Ultrix 4.3 either.
Hmm...can't help you with that; never tried it. I do remember,
however, reading something recently (here? or maybe NetBSD's
port-vax list?) about the TZ30 not being a well-behaved SCSI citizen
and needing some tweaks in somebody's (NetBSD's?) SCSI driver somewhere
to work properly.
Coincidentally though, Zane, I'm doing the same thing tonight...I
just finished putting together an 11/73 and now (in parallel with a
few other things) I'm trying to figure out how to get the
distribution onto a TK50.