OK, last night I tried copying the damaged RL02's that contain what is
supposed to be a RSX-11M v4.1 distribution.  Unfortunatly two of the disks
seem to be damaged.  I was able to recover 3/4 of one, and boot it in the
Supnik emulator, the other wouldn't even mount.
Now, I've got a question about these packs, and thier labels.
RSX-11M V4.1                    |
        RSXM35 V1               | I was able to copy 8,638,976 bytes of
        RLUTIL V2               | 10,485,760.  It will boot.
Copied 06/19/84                 | Fault light now comes on when try to load
RSX-11M V4.1
        EXCPRV V1
        HLPDCL V2
Copied 06/19/84
RSX-11M V4.1
        MCRSRC V1
Copied 06/19/84
RSX-11M V4.1                    |
        ACSQ22 V1               | Fault light comes on when I try to load it.
        UPDATE V2               |
        ACS MODS V3             |
Copied 06/19/84 rev 06/14/84    |
Unfortuntaly I suspect that the first pack is the most important, and based
on the SYSGEN documentation, I need the first three packs to do a SYSGEN.
What on earth is the third pack?
Also, is this the standard way for a RSX-11M distribution to be packaged?
On a semi positive note, the drives (2 RL02, and 2 RL01) came with 2 RL02
packs and a RL01 pack in them.  The two RL02's contain a bootable system
that appears to have the Whitesmith C on it.  I'm not sure about the RL01.
I'm still hoping the Whitesmith C distribution on RL01 is OK.
Once I've got archival copies made of all this I'll be more willing to play
with the packs.  On a positive note, I can play with the images in the
emulator while copying them.  I think I've still got over a dozen packs to
go through.  I'll probably finish the RL02's tonite.
                                Zane
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