Zane H. Healy wrote:
What I have done was take an image created on either
SIMH or E11 (I'm
pretty sure I was using SIMH), put RT-11 on it, written that out to a
CD-R, and booted and installed from that. I've done the same with
RSX-11M+. IIRC, I was unable to successfully boot the RSTS/E CD. I'm
using a Viking QDT SCSI controller.
I use both SIMH and E11 when I run RT-11 on my PC. So I am familiar with
some of the problems.
If it will help in the testing, would a CD-R with RT-11 be acceptable?
There is a dual file
structure CD which can be used as a data CD as a regular CD and also
boot RT-11 on
real DEC hardware using a SCSI CD drive which supports 512 byte blocks.
For the one example that I produced, classiccmp has it available at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/dists/
and the compressed file with the CD image is RT11DV10.ISO.zip
If I am not mistaken, I think that Zane has a copy of this CD image and
actually booted RT-11 on his DEC PDP-11 at some point in the distant
past.
The is also a companion CD produced at the same time with all the
additional RT-11 binary distributions which were released after V05.03
of RT-11. This image was actually produced first as RT11DV50.ISO
and then altered to produce RT11DV10.ISO by using RT-11 to change
to contents of the README.1ST file and zeroing out the contents of
the RT-11 distributions released after V05.03 of RT-11. All of this
changing of the contents was done by using RT-11.
Jerome Fine